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Relatedly, I firmly believe the fastest way to improve your worldbuilding tools is to make your tools engineer sit next to a Worldbuilder for a day and just watch them use it. Worldbuilders are used to suffering in silence. Sometimes, tools engineers need to experience shame.

Pete Stewart 🏳️‍🌈@petestewart.bsky.social

I firmly believe any game writer is demonstrably better at their job once they at least understand (and ideally can actively participate in) the implementation process.

Talarian

@talarian.bsky.social

Honestly the case for any design tools. Just watch the designer and see what insane workarounds they came up with that you can fix with 5 minutes of work.

Damion Schubert

@zenofdesign.com

Worldbuilder: "And so now I create an invisible man." Programmer: "Why?!?!" Worldbuilder: "Because collision volumes on primitives have been broken for six months." Programmer: "You should have filed a bug!" Worldbuilder: "I have. six months ago. Five months ago. Four months ago...."

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Damion Schubert

@zenofdesign.com

Programmer: "How many of these are in the world right now?" Worldbuilder: "Uh, about six months worth?" Programmer: "Argh!" Worldbuilder: "... when a player comes near the invisible man, he has to start dancing so this other invisible man can detect him!"