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16 frameworks
The Players-in-the-Spotlight Test
Build the tool that makes people entertaining to each other, never the thing that entertains them.
Core Gameplay Loop Anatomy
Find the one action people repeat forever, then build everything else as scaffolding around it.
The One-Question Playtest
Throw away the survey and ask only whether they wanted to play again.
The Zero Effect Brainstorm
Stop hunting for the one right idea and start hunting for anything at all — then your hit rate is one hundred percent.
Games Should Make the Players Entertaining
Stop building a product that performs for people and start building one that makes people perform for each other.
Sensory Substitution by Correlation
Route any data stream onto the skin and let the brain decode it against the other senses.
The I-Can-Do-That Mastery Ladder
Engineer four thoughts in sequence — I can do that, I did that, I know what's next, I can do that too — and repeat until mastery.
Sanderson's Second Law
Design the limits first — weaknesses, costs and constraints generate more story than powers ever do.
The Descriptive Test Audience
Run 25 to 100 readers like a Hollywood test screening and ban them from suggesting fixes.
Network First, Territory Last
Every failed micronation starts with land; build the aligned people, then the archipelago, then seek recognition.
Deepen Before You Widen
Three things done well beat thirty done shallowly — expand what you already have before adding anything new.
The Far-Analogy Framework Transplant
Take an analytical framework from a distant field and run it across your own companies.
The Idiothesis
Generate two stupid hypotheses a day and stay unattached to every one of them.
Kill It When the Last Good Judgment Gives Up
Set the experiment's stopping rule at judgment exhausted, not at first failed test.
Bedrock Before Innovation
Master the entire history of your field first, then break from it
Pattern Inversion Experiment
Name the pattern running through your work, then deliberately build its opposite