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Designing for Emotion

What Western F2P Game Designers Don't Understand

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Joseph Kim
Jul 19, 2021
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Many years ago, I was watching a documentary about KPOP and a famous US music producer was asked to evaluate a specific hit Korean song. He answered that from a technical perspective he thought the song was terrible, but ultimately he suggested that it didn’t matter:

The definition of art is how a song makes you feel.

I can’t remember the exact quote but…

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