Holleman proposed that the history of videogame design is divided into three main groups: the arcade era, the composite era, and the set-piece period.

Focus and concentration work like a muscle; the ability to concentrate intensively is a skill that must be trained.

Games are about agency, while stories are about empathy.

Rapid prototyping is a core discipline of the game design process. The important thing is to build something interactive as quickly and cheaply as possible

We learn by imitating what other people have done. Through copying, we can develop the mental structures of how things work.

Deliberate practice and feedback loops applied to learning video-game design.