I thought this was a good write up on why to make a small game and how to conceptualize your process, and some technical advice. I was sorta hoping it would be

I thought this was a good write up on why to make a small game and how to conceptualize your process, and some technical advice. I was sorta hoping it would be more “I’ve accepted I want to make a small game. How do I make a good game?” As someone who likes the idea of making small games, I don’t know the discipline and I know there must be. Writing excellent software has a variety of specific ways of thinking about software and it’s implementation, how to organize ideas, what parts to not forget to plan our carefully up front and what to discover in the doing, etc.