game-design-novelty-spectrum-audit
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Evaluate a game design, feature proposal, system concept, pitch, or prototype on the novelty spectrum between too familiar and too novel. Use when assessing whether a concept has enough differentiation, whether it violates player expectations too strongly, how it balances familiarity and innovation, or whether its innovation pattern is best understood as incremental innovation, recombination, simplification, or a more radical break from established mental models.
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