Make Great Games

Purpose

We recognize that players want great games that enrich their lives, and developers want to craft and support those games.

From this understanding we gain financial success in an ethical manner, with which we reward our stakeholders, and grow our business.

values

Understanding our values enables us to make better decisions when facing difficult problems throughout the game project. The most challenging problems usually arise from a conflict between things we value, by clarifying which values we hold over others we can quickly align on what we need to do to make the game great.

In the making of a game we value…

• Making a great game over financial gain

• The player experience as a whole over any of its parts

• Quality over efficiency

• Iteration over documentation

• Acting on learnings over following a plan

• Principles over practices

While we value both, when they conflict we value the former over the later.

Principles

If we master the principles, we can flexibly adapt our practices to any project or challenge. Without them, practices become rigid prescriptions—useful in one scenario, destructive in another.

In our framework for making great games, we observe the following core principles:

• Know your players, and seek to delight them

• Drive by the player experience

• Game first, without breaking the team

• Start simple and allow complexity to evolve

• First Quality, then Efficiency

• Seek continuous improvement

• Cultivate passion and professionalism

• Foster a creative environment

• Maintain calm urgency

• Empower leaders