Have you played Final Fantasy Tactics? If you have, you must
remember how tremendous the number of game element that the game has. Although
not every of them is important, but heck, in the end you will try to learn and
memorize most of them. Not only in Final Fantasy Tactics, all of the games must
have a set of information, whether it the rules or the strategy, that the
player must remember. Try to remember how much games that you have played. And
if each of them has the information at least a fifth of that Final Fantasy
Tactics, the total information that you have remembered must be a billion, or
more! And all of them is stored in our tiny greyish brain. Isn’t it awesome?
Well, actually, no. Remember again the first time you played Final Fantasy
Tactics. If you like me, who played for the first time in the PSP version, you
must remember how many section of tutorial that it got. And you can access all
of them even at the beginning of the game. At first, I tried to be patience
scrolling and watching all the tutorials. But after half an hour, my head start
to get hurt, and I went into the state “The hell with the tutorial let’s just
start the game!” It shows that even though our brain can store a lot of
information, but it cannot do it in one go. This is very important for every
game designer. Because by making your player cannot cope with the information that
the game provided, it only results with the ditching of the game, or worse, making
you as the player’s swore enemy. Before that happen, it would be best for us to
know more about our brain.
