1) “But many have a crisis of confidence, and feel stuck in a catch-22: If only game designers can design games, and you can only become a game designer by designing games, how can anyone ever get started? (Basically saying for many it’s a case of confidence boosting).
2) “Game design is decision making, and decisions must be made with confidence. Will you fail some times? Yes you will. You will fail again, and again, and again. You will fail man more times than you will succeed. You will come to love your failures, because each failure brings you a step closer to a truly phenomenal game.
3) Skills a Game Designer Needs? Animation, Anthropology , Architecture, Brainstorming, Business , Cinematography, Communication, Creative Writing, Engineering, History, Management, Mathematics, Music, Psychology, Public Speaking, Sound Design, technical Writing, Visual Arts.
4) The most important skill for a game designer is listening. Game designers must listen to many things. These can be grouped into five major categories: Team, Audience, Game, Client, and self.
5) You will need to listen to your team, since you will be building your game and making crucial game design decisions together with them.
6) There are two kinds of gifts. First, there is the innate gift of a given skill. This is the minor gift. If you have this gift, a skill such as game design, mathematics, or playing the piano comes naturally to you. You can do it easily, almost without thinking. But you don’t necessarily enjoy doing it. there are millions with minor gifts of all kinds, who although gifted, never do anything with their gifted skill, and this is because they lack the major gift.
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ReplyDeleteThese are competent notes, what we now need is a paragraph at the end which sums up for you, what the article makes you think about, in relation to games you have read or games you might design. That way you take more ownership over the material.
Hi Joe,
ReplyDeleteWhile your games blog has got off to a good start, it seems to be missing a few posts related to the material we've covered in Intro to Critical Games Studies. Do take advantage of any time that may be given to make blog posts, or just grab a few minutes between sessions, or at the end of the day, to type up your notes and post them.
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ReplyDeleteAs eddie says above, you really need to be updating your blog on a regular basis. You say you are taking notes directly onto a computer so it should simple to upload these entries to your blog and add a paragraph or two of your own thoughts on these readings. It is important you do this or this may become a very onerous task.
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