Most studios hand their teams a roadmap and call it ownership. @GiulioXdotEth does it differently at @Pixelmon. Teams make the call. If a game designer wants to take the product in a direction leadership disagrees with — they get the green light, not a veto. The one condition: define what winning looks like before you start. Pick your metric, set your threshold, and give yourself a month to prove it. Not three. One. If it works, you were right. If it doesn't, you change course — no postmortem, no blame, just forward. That's the deal. It's empowering to see a studio actually architect trust rather than just talk about it.