Expert taste cards
Public summaries of expert judgment frameworks, useful heuristics, and failure boundaries.
Taste first in the AI-native era
Open resources for human taste and expert judgment.
OpenTaste starts with public expert taste cards: source-aware summaries of judgment frameworks for people who care about taste, creative direction, and AI-native work.
Free
Public resources for a broad user base.
Verified
Verification is an optional trust signal, not a participation requirement.
Game analysis first
Starting with game analysis workflows.
Free public resources
Start with expert taste cards.
The GitHub project is the public entry point. It starts with expert taste cards, source links, open contribution workflows, and optional verification signals.
Public source links
Each card should connect claims to public sources, books, talks, interviews, or project records.
Use and limits
Cards describe applicable scenarios, anti-patterns, and where the lens should not be used.
Expert verification
Public proof, project experience, and disclosure can support optional review; it does not promise approval or listing.
Public-source taste card list
Choose a taste lens.
Jesse Schell
Game design lenses and multi-perspective creative review.
Raph Koster
Fun as learning, pattern recognition, and virtual-world systems.
Tynan Sylvester
Emotion engineering, emergent narrative, and simulation-first design.
Katie Salen / Eric Zimmerman
Rules, play, systems, and the magic-circle framing of games.
Celia Hodent
Player cognition, UX research, usability, and ethical game design review.
Mark Brown
Video-based design analysis, level design critique, and readable breakdowns.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Universal fun, spatial intuition, approachability, and highly polished play.
Hideo Kojima
Auteur direction, cross-media inspiration, cinematic systems, and mood.
Masahiro Sakurai
Feel, readability, holistic direction, and public design teaching.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Fair difficulty, fragmented lore, exploration, risk, and player memory.
Jenova Chen
Emotional design, warm social experience, and accessible cooperative play.
Cai Haoyu
ACG industrialization, global content production, and long-term IP ecosystems.
Phase one focus
Game analysis first.
OpenTaste starts with game analysis workflows where human taste, systems thinking, genre knowledge, and evidence boundaries matter.
Metric design
- Better metric questions
- Field and evidence needs
- Review checklists
Metric interpretation
- What a metric suggests
- What it cannot prove
- Evidence boundaries
Analysis topics
- Product phenomena
- Player feedback framing
- Segments and data gaps
Deep analysis
- Multiple taste cards
- Product and player evidence
- Counter-evidence paths
Open-ended Q&A
- Sharper questions
- Structured answers
- No expert impersonation
Open contribution, optional verification
Anyone can submit a taste card.
Verification is optional and used only to signal that public identity, public work, domain relevance, and disclosure have been reviewed. A pull request starts the review; it does not guarantee acceptance.
Open a Pull Request
Public profile
GitHub, personal website, talks, writing, or public work.
Public organization evidence
Employment or organization links that can be publicly verified.
Project experience
Public project history, product credits, shipped work, or publicly shareable case notes.
Disclosure
Public, high-level conflicts, confidentiality limits, and listing preference only.
Governance
Respectful human-AI collaboration.
OpenTaste treats human taste as contribution, not as disposable labor. Public resources and verification records should be transparent, consent-based, and careful with confidential information.
Recognize judgment, lived context, and practical experience behind expert work.
No sensitive personal data, contracts, salaries, or non-public customer details.
This public site presents open resources and verification, not private transactions.
Build open AI-native taste resources.
Start with expert taste cards. Improve sources. Request verification only when a trust signal is needed.