All the points he made about design up-front I'm entirely on board with: obviously it's difficult to say how much is necessary / right / overkill, but you defin

All the points he made about design up-front I'm entirely on board with: obviously it's difficult to say how much is necessary / right / overkill, but you definitely want to think about what you're building. TV/film/studios as a model don't offer a particularly compelling vision (to me, anyway). Games work a lot like that, and I think they're probably some of the worst development jobs you can have (as a rule).