Back to collectionA Holiday Meeting Leaves the Hard Questions Open
Thanksgiving had arrived, and Silicon Valley was on holiday, but the studio's strategic discussion continued. Those at the meeting went through the list item by item. The holiday discussion moved the list a step away from a record of frustrations and toward conditions that could be compared, but the disagreement remained.
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Thanksgiving had arrived, and Silicon Valley was on holiday, but the studio's strategic discussion continued. The requirements list drafted the day before was already long. The immediate question was how to distinguish the experience players truly needed from conveniences the team hoped to secure.
Those at the meeting went through the list item by item. One person worried that making every wish a firm condition would make it impossible to start assessing options. Another asked what the meeting would achieve if they discarded the hard problems first. They set the disputed items apart for now and asked A-Zhen to describe their effect on actual game flows. The meeting went on without a final judgment.
The holiday discussion moved the list a step away from a record of frustrations and toward conditions that could be compared, but the disagreement remained. Next, the team would have to examine the cost and tradeoffs of each requirement before judging whether existing options could serve them. No one treated that day's discussion as a completed strategic decision.