Bushnell's Law
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bushnell-s-law-265-9850863
title:
Bushnell's Law
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Bushnell's Law or Nolan's Law is an aphorism often attributed to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, on the subject of video game design: Bushnell came up with the concept based on his experience with his first game Computer Space in 1971. Its controls were based on four otherwise equivalent-looking buttons but with different functions, and Bushnell found that this had confused players that were trying to learn the game due to their lack of familiarity with these types of controls. Bushnell kept this
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Game design principle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushnell%27s_Law
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2023-05-26T14:36:18Z
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