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What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

Razbuten · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Game designUX & UI designGaming culture & analysis

What it is

Razbuten has his wife, who has never played games, try a sampling of titles and shows where she struggles. It highlights unspoken game conventions that experienced players take for granted.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it to illustrate learned literacy in game and software UX, and how unfamiliar conventions confuse newcomers.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “very well done and much more substantive than this summary”

    Substantive look at unclear lessons in games.

    gundmc, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “An analysis of unclear lessons in video games (2019)”

  2. “The video has a bunch of other interesting observations.”

    Non-gamer wife plays games; reveals assumed base knowledge.

    vinkelhake, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “The UX of video game tutorials”

  3. “This video explains my feelings better than me”

    Explains difficulty returning to modern games.

    newswasboring, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Life is not short”

  4. “is a pretty good video about a similar thing”

    Shows how unfamiliar conventions confuse newcomers.

    zjp, 2023-09 · Recommendation · in “Linux becoming a Windows / OS X clone”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: non-gamers, game design, tutorials, ux, onboarding

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