Talk:Puzzle Development

"Best practices"

I'm concerned about what appears to be one team (or at best, a few teams') opinions being presented here as canonical rules without attribution. For example, the first item on the list says to write 50% more puzzles than you intend to include in the event. We did this for neither BAPHL 6 nor BAPHL 9, and those events turned out okay. I absolutely do not want to discourage people from stating what they thought was helpful/successful, but I don't like the idea of whoever gets here first speaking for everyone who's constructed. --DanKatz (talk) 20:54, 25 July 2014 (PDT)

Agreed. We also didn't write 50% more puzzles for BAPHL 7, and that turned out just fine. Can we find a better term other than best practices? The general steps at the top (start from the metas and work your way back) are good, but I don't want it to seem like there's only one way to do this. It's really going to vary from team to team. -- BenMSmith

I agree, "best practices" is not the best term for this. However, I am far more in favor of people adding suggestions or warnings based on their own experiences than feeling they need to censor themselves or others. --Tortoise (talk) 17:12, 26 July 2014 (PDT)

My point was not that people shouldn't post their own ideas, but rather that they should sign them. --DanKatz (talk) 09:02, 31 July 2014 (PDT)