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It's cool looking at how game design has changed since we stopped expecting players to read enormous manuals explaining how things worked

@ZoeQuinnzel It got SO MUCH BETTER. Although, there was a time before manuals too, like Mario 1 and stuff.

@agentmaine Yeah, games were less complex back then and didn't really need them.

@ZoeQuinnzel I dunno if I agree. @auntiepixelante and 1-up have done write-ups of 1-1 as an excellent lesson in implicit tutorialization.

@agentmaine @auntiepixelante It's way harder to try and do unobtrusive in-game teaching in something like Civ

@ZoeQuinnzel It would be like giving someone a gesture-based Kinect game, and not telling them what gestures did anything.

@agentmaine that could actually be really fun

@ZoeQuinnzel ... you are pioneering the field, so you have no mentor. You have to figure out what actually works and what it does.