--- title: Turning Taste into Deliverables: Making Stealth Game... description: A game design consultant shares a structured review of an early stealth game prototype, delivered in four days with no AI assistance. Using the MDA... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-taste-into-deliverables-making-stealth-game-stealthy-667bzfcku twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Turning Taste into Deliverables: Making Stealth Game stealthy | daily.dev og:description: A game design consultant shares a structured review of an early stealth game prototype, delivered in four days with no AI assistance. Using the MDA... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-taste-into-deliverables-making-stealth-game-stealthy-667bzfcku og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/667bzFckU.png og:image:alt: Turning Taste into Deliverables: Making Stealth Game stealthy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Turning Taste into Deliverables: Making Stealth Game stealthy **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A game design consultant shares a structured review of an early stealth game prototype, delivered in four days with no AI assistance. Using the MDA (Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics) framework, the review translates vague player feelings into precise, actionable design notes organized into three priority tiers. Tier 1 covers foundational issues: enemy perception state machines, a radial power wheel, action priority ordering, traversal visual language, diegetic navigation, camera control, and audio feedback. Tier 2 addresses genre expectations: surfacing enemy emotional states through world-space auras instead of UI widgets, colour harmony, combat weight, encounter variety, and interactable object tells. Tier 3 covers polish: menu hierarchy, micro-animations for NPC believability, and UI clutter removal. Each note includes a reference to a shipped game with timestamped clips so programmers can act without follow-up. The core lesson: turning design taste into buildable deliverables requires pairing every judgment with a specific fix, a reason, a priority, and a concrete reference. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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