Idols of the Game Design or Things That Can Ruin Your Fruitful Farms, Great Cities,

and Other Genius Games

Aleksey Rehlov | External Producer

Father of Scientific Method

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

And the fighter against bigotry.

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Idola Mentis: Idols of the Mind

• Idols of the Tribe

• Idols of the Cave

• Idols of the Marketplace

• Idols of the Theatre

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Idola Tribus: Idols of the Tribe

• Belief in myths

• Traditions

• Explanation of things on the basis of human nature This is humans' tendency to perceive more

order and regularity in systems than truly exists, and is due to people following their

preconceived ideas about things.

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Sky Castle

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Idola Specus: Idols of the Cave

• Education background

• Parenting background

• Social status

• Ethnic backgroundThis is due to individuals' personal

weaknesses in reasoning due to particular personalities, likes and dislikes.

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ZooCraft

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Idola Fori: Idols of the Marketplace

• Unexamining acceptance of the view of other people

• Use of qualitative evaluationinstead of quantitative evaluation

• Equating of public views to facts

This is due to confusion in the use of language and taking some words in science

to have a different meaning than their common usage.

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Счастливый фермер: Happy Farmer

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“We create not games, but show-windows.”

Idola Theatri: Idols of the Theatre

• Belief in inerrant authority

• Belief in the written word

• Belief in History Repeating

This is the following of academic dogma and not asking questions about the world.

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Vanished Hopes

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How to crush your Idols?

• Information filtering

• Assessment of knowledge

• Use of facts

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Idols of the Game Design or Things That Can Ruin Your Fruitful Farms, Great Cities, and

Other Genius Games

Questions?Aleksey Rehlov | External Producer