Jeff Kaplan
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Game designer; led quest design on World of Warcraft and directed Overwatch at Blizzard Entertainment, which he left in 2021; now making The Legend of…
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29 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel. (opens korrents.com)
“So the advice that I always give, and it sounds so stupid, like this sounds really trite, but focus on what you wanna do, not what you wanna be.”
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A small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline. (opens korrents.com)
“The bigger the team, the more you become a cog in the machine. And on a small team, the way I like to describe it is you get to have a loud voice.”
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The less two people on a team interact, the more they vilify each other's point of view — which is where "the artists just don't get it" comes from. (opens korrents.com)
“And there’s a weird thing that happens that’s just kind of a human nature thing. The less you interact with somebody, the more you sort of become alienated from them and vilify their point of view.”
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The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens rcmnd.app)
“So there’s one that’s the best. It’s Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.”
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Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens rcmnd.app)
“Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and that’s a game where you can see the expertise and mastery of the game design and the narrative design”
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Zork (opens rcmnd.app)
“Yeah, Zork was fantastic. I think it might be open source now, which I think is fabulous. But I highly recommend Zork.”
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens rcmnd.app)