I read through this earlier in the week, yeah. It's absolutely amazing, some of the stuff they talked about.
My favourite is the whole breakdown of psychology for the very beginning of Super Mario Bros World 1-1. You walk to the right, you see a mushroom thing coming left; either it kills you and you learn that they're bad or you know to jump over it - and if you land on it, you learn that you can kill things by doing that. Then you hit the block, you see a DIFFERENT mushroom coming out, but it's going to the right . . . and then when it rebounds towards you and if you try to jump over it for fear that it'll kill you, you'll hit the blocks and get knocked back down and get the mushroom . . . then you learn that the mushrooms are good.
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I read through this earlier in the week, yeah. It's absolutely amazing, some of the stuff they talked about.
My favourite is the whole breakdown of psychology for the very beginning of Super Mario Bros World 1-1. You walk to the right, you see a mushroom thing coming left; either it kills you and you learn that they're bad or you know to jump over it - and if you land on it, you learn that you can kill things by doing that. Then you hit the block, you see a DIFFERENT mushroom coming out, but it's going to the right . . . and then when it rebounds towards you and if you try to jump over it for fear that it'll kill you, you'll hit the blocks and get knocked back down and get the mushroom . . . then you learn that the mushrooms are good.
That's just intense.