Ski Jump Design

Continuing from last week’s thoughts . In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear introductory section to a game, which opens up into blue sky freedom. I want to run with that, but I’m moving over to a ski jump analogy instead. In short: Climb: Make it easy to get the book to the table and have other players want to play. Descent: Begin with…