To all you modders out there!

[eliasfrost]

In regards to "story-gameplay, gameplay-story", for me when I started my project, I began with the story and the narrative, and after I got the ideas down, story, setting, the color palette, music, sound and mood, I started to look for an engine. I wrote down and thinked about what kind of gameplay would best complement my narrative, doing the things the other way around feels weird to me because that means I have to cut corners on the core of my game: the story and setting to fit in with the gameplay. For other types of game, I would totally start with the gameplay, like if I was making an arcade style scorehunt fest. But my game would never be able to fit into that kind of development structure. As I said earlier, it's very situational and like Adianis said, I think it's wrong of a lecturer to prioritize one type of game over the other, or one development structure over the other, because all of them have a place somewhere, it's all about what kind of game you make, and what features you put most emphasis on.