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Manual

Players learn what you value from your systems, not your words. The argument for everything that follows.

1. 00.01Every system is a statement
2. 00.02Players hear everything
3. 00.03One discipline, seven timescales↳Timescale Ruler

Seven chapters, ordered by timescale, from the first frame to the fifth year.

1. 01.01Game Feelthe first 33 milliseconds↳Juice Dial
2. 01.02Game UXthe session↳Eight UX Laws
3. 01.03Onboardingthe first hours↳Three Hits Funnel
4. 01.04Competitive Systemsthe season↳Two Numbers Machine
5. 01.05Metagamethe account↳Match Record Fanout
6. 01.06Social Systemsthe community↳Scoreboard Machine
7. 01.07Live Opsthe years↳Reversal Timeline

A template for taking a game from blank page to first playable: teardowns, razors, and the Inside-Out Model for deciding what to build first, next, and later.

1. 02.01Name the crossroads, make one bet
2. 02.02Dig in the crates
3. 02.03Razors, not pillars
4. 02.04The Inside-Out Model↳Inside-Out Model
5. 02.05Hit the gym
6. 02.06Deep dive the scariest system

Twenty-one ways to get unstuck: beginning, progressing, and finishing a design.

1. 03.01Beginningseven cards for when you can’t start↳Jumpstart Deck
2. 03.02Progressingseven for when the middle goes soft
3. 03.03Finishingseven for getting it out the door