Around the 25-28 minute mark there was talk about game design sessions that some of your guests have run. I was particularly interested in the mario balancing exercise – is there a site that I could try this out?

Also, keep up the great work. It’s fun to get to know some of the indie devs and hear that they have the same struggles/challenges as us and how they get around them.

1) In the Get Lamp documentary about interactive fiction, one of the Infocom guys says they got letter from a player that really enjoyed strolling in the forest of Zork, and how nice the game was. They never got into the house. They never got underground where the bulk of the game is. They had fun exploring the game world, with little challenge.

2) When I was playing WoW (as part of the free 3-day trial, and that’s it!), I had to pause playing, and instead of logging out, I just found a nice tree and sat beneath it. It just seemed the right thing to do as a character in the world. (I just checked, and it improves health regeneration, but I’m not sure I knew that at the time.)