Brandon Boyer and Super Brothers write the new video game manifesto. I’m not kidding you.

“Meanwhile, our modern day Hyrule videogames*, well, there’s a sadness here isn’t there? The sadness is that the man** who pioneered all this rock has allowed committees and middle managers and random stakeholders to choke these videogames with needless, often incoherent, and always disruptive talk.

Sometimes there are spaces where the old magic exists, when you are seeing things, hearing things, spotting patterns, flowing through spaces, experiencing moods and locations. But often our experiences are pierced by disruptive, dissonant elements: overlong and condescending tutorials, over-explained idiotic stories and a million other stupidities.

Less Talk More Rock by Brandon Boyer and Superbrothers is genius. It is truly the best thing I’ve ever read to communicate how video games should be made and how they should be, period.

Bookmark it and read it every time you wonder why you aren’t enjoying a particular game with your heart, and by enjoying, I mean wholeheartedly feel the game as if it is facilitating an experience that really couldn’t have been communicated to you in any other way, and hasn’t really been communicated to you in this way before.

It’s why we play, or at least why we should.

*Legend of Zelda
**Shigeru Miyamoto