Harmony and Game Design
Happy holidays! The flow of my brain activity has decided to bless you all today with another game design article. What i want to talk about today is harmony. More specifically, the idea that design begets design. Some time ago, i read somewhere that Michelangelo said that he doesn't sculpt; rather, he "frees the statue trapped inside the slab of marble". It's been so much time actually that i don't even remember if it was Michelangelo, but this saying stuck with me. At first it seemed like a romanticization or just something stupid because like, come on dude. There's no statue stuck in there you're just chipping away at a block of marble with your chisel. But now that i am more experienced, older, wiser and more mentally ill i can see that he had a point. One key pillar of game design i think we can all agree is that different aspects of design need to agree with each other. I cannot design a horror monster to be spooky and scary and have its