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Welcome to this installment of Pixel Perfect Picks. Here I'm sharing something that I heard, read, and saw. You can subscribe to this newsletter here. I'm additionally publishing a more extended essay about software development, design, and freelancing every month.

This week I've stumbled upon a webpage that is something I have been looking for a very long time. A collection of just good things. In the past years, I have made more and more conscious buying decisions, since I'm almost always looking for very high-quality items that are built to last a lifetime. This is everything I feel is worth getting, despite the Porsche maybe, lol.

Building a game is one of the most constant items on my bucket list of things to do. I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to it. I just launched my biggest side project ever to a very small family and friends beta, and I can already see the next one coming up. The barriers to entry are getting lower and lower. I stumbled upon this article, and a quote that really stuck with me is this one: Games are about posing problems that let players learn and master them. Good games give clear feedback, variation, and rising challenge so uncertainty lasts. Designing is simple in idea but hard in practice because players and designers both learn.

It's actually not really something I heard, but read, but it's so good that I need to share it here. It's an article series from Nielsen Normann about good design. Especially why a design looks good in particular. Excellent read! 

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