You can make (most) designs interesting through your play-talk—but when published, your design needs to speak for itself.
Quotes on game design
There is a huge difference between having a neat idea for a game or mechanic, and building a working game that’s accessible and fun to play.
Focus on creating games that are unique. It’s very crowded out there in copycat gamer land.
A game designer is not an author. Like a prop master or a stage director, the game designer proposes and deploys an object into the world, letting it speak for itself and be spoken through.
