ABSTRACT
The Oliver twins, founders of Blitz Games Studios and Radiant Worlds, and at one point responsible for five of the Top 10 bestselling games in the United Kingdom, delivered their game Fast Food in a single weekend. Design thinking leaves plenty of room for that most elusive of qualities in video games: enduring fun. The Oliver twins attempted to run a Kickstarter campaign to bring back their 8-bit hero Dizzy, a platforming egg-shaped character who starred in a dozen games between 1987 and 1992. A desirable product is one that players will talk about, anticipate, get excited about, pre-order and fill the forums with chatter about how excited they are at the prospect of getting their hands on the game. David Braben and Ian Bell figured out how to encode the information for 256 planets into just 6 bytes when they coded space exploration game Elite for a home computer that had only 32 kilobytes of memory.
