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Simplify!

My game, right now, is a mess. There are so many rules, each one adding a little bit to the metaphor, and I understand them all perfectly. There are some people who help, and some people who harm, and the only way to tell them apart is by watching what they do. They change their behavior if you take off their hats. This makes sense to me.

But when I think about how I'm going to explain this to the player, I come up short. These aren't obvious rules at all, and they only seem obvious because I've been thinking about them for so long.

So I've got to (temporarily) stop adding rules and start taking away rules. I could have the most sophisticated gameplay-as-metaphor ever, but if no one understands it but me, then what's the point?