Re:Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)
by nemo1618 on Saturday May 17, 2014 @09:13PM
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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."
- Igor Stravinsky
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Re:Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)
by darkmighty on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:44AM
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Nice quote; here's my attempt to put it in a less of a "hazy 19th century philosophy" kind of way: "The more constraints one imposes, the narrower the decision tree and smaller the design space, a focus which enables quick enumeration detailed search of such design space... making it therein less costly to obtain good results instead of aimless exploration of a space of "infinite" possibilities"