'Magic: the Gathering': 20 Years, 20 Lessons Learned

Mark Rosewater, head designer of Magic: The Gathering, gives a GDC talk with twenty lessons from twenty years of designing the game. They cover how to design for players, with examples from the game.

HN recommends it as a strong talk on game design whose lessons carry over to other kinds of design and software.

“Here's a pretty good talk by Mark Rosewater with some lessons that don't just apply to games”