Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

18Feb/105

What is a game designer?

Ten days without posting, I must be dead! No, but I've been abroad to a couple of places and just got home and I'm about to crash into bed. I just wanted to tell you one thing first.

While being abroad I met with a game developer student, recently graduated. It was pretty much random that I met him and I didn't know who he was. We introduced each other and we talked about our diciplines of development. He told me that he was a character artist and I told him I'm a game designer. That's when he said to me:

- Game Designer? I do not know what that is.

I was totally in shock and didn't know what to do. I tried explaining it and I think he eventually understood it somewhat. But apparently, some game development schools have a long way to go....

But I've been thinking about a few things while being away. So tomorrow I'll make sure to write a couple of posts (published every other day) about:

  • Uncanney Valley of Gameplay
  • One hand games
  • Beat Boxing
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  1. Game designers are stupid and a total waste. But not knowing what they do, especially when you are going into the game industry, is a bit odd. I think he needs to go back to school, or maybe the education should be educated.

    Anyway, great to have you back. Did you take any photos?

  2. Ouch!

    But yeah, I really think the education needs some looking over. For me, it’s like a man making ice cream but doesn’t know what milk is.

    Yeah, got around 150 photos och varying quality.

  3. …and you couldn’t share one photo to your fans? That’s evil. Grrr!

  4. Same hotel I was in when I visited Poland ;) Hope it went well.


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