Chapter 12
Guiding the Player
As you’ve read in earlier chapters, your primary job as a designer is to craft an experience for players to enjoy. However, the further you get into your project and your design, the more obvious and intuitive your game appears to you. This comes from your familiarity with the game and is entirely natural.
However, this means that you need to keep a wary eye on your game, making sure that players who have never seen your game before also intuitively understand what they need to do to experience the game as you intended. This requires careful, sometimes invisible, guidance, and it is the topic of this chapter.
This chapter covers two styles of player guidance: direct, where the player knows that they are being guided; ...
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