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Quick heads up that you should consider creating physical elements of your game in Lego to test and acquire a unique sense of awareness of your game's world you wouldn't be able to experience in any other way.
You would be surprised at the amount of parallels between building with Lego and game design and how much one can benefit the other, at the end of the day they are both forms of interactive architecture.
It's a well known fact that the best gamedevs are also Lego fans or at very least played with Lego as kids. Hell, Minecraft, the most successful indie gamedev of all time, is pretty much a virtual version of playing with legos.
>Kojima also described how his workaholic habits—an average of four hours of sleep a night!—got him in trouble with his wife, courtesy of his son: He also told the story of his son coming into the office with him while designing Metal Gear Solid, when the designers sometimes used Lego pieces to put the levels together. His son returned to his wife, who was already unhappy with the amount of time Kojima was spending away, only to report that his Dad "plays with Legos [SIC] all day."
