Baking a game..

Its friday morning, I'm at work and not fully awake yet, so bear with me if I talking nonsense, as I'm known to do.. Making a game is like baking a cake, only you know the ingredients but you don't remember or don't have a complete recipe. You know what you want it to taste like but you don't know how much sugar is enough and if three eggs is too much..

So you mix it up and see how it goes.. Maybe you have tried baking bread before so you know the basics - hopefully.. It might turn out right but there's a little too much of something you can't quite put your finger on, so you go back a little, start over and see what happens next.

After a few attempts you end up with something that has potential and you start to get really excited.. start to get a feel for how much flavour you need and start fine tuning it.. then some wiseguy says: 'I bet cinnamon would go well with this..?' and another guy says: 'Yeah, I love cinnamon!'.. So you mix again, and see where it ends.. It might not work, or it might be just what you missed..

I think I've taken this stupid analogy as far as I can now, I hope I haven't embarrased myself too much already - and I might add that I've never baked a cake, but I don't mind eating them..