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#videogames are great in teaching players the mechanics and controls of the game by exposing players to different actions bit by bit as they are needed, slowly building up player's skills.
There's a lot what we technical writes and tech educators can learn from video game tutorials.
That's what today's blog post is about!
#documentation #technicalwriting #writing #education
https://hamatti.org/posts/what-tech-docs-can-learn-from-video-game-tutorials_/
Juha-Matti Santala | Community Builder. Adventurer. Dreamer.What tech docs can learn from video game tutorials?Video games are well known for their tutorials and how they teach increasingly complex actions to players step by step. Technical documentation and tutorials can learn quite a bit from the video game industry.
As a follow up, there's a great talk by Matthew Baldwin (https://www.defectiveyeti.com/) about board game rule books and what we technical writers can learn from those.
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