Author Archive for Arcade Berg



12
Oct
09

A good designer is always a good designer

The topic which I’m to discuss is one that I think most people have an opinion about. Can a good game designer design any type of game?

I’ve decided that I’ll break it down to two different ways of answering that.

Can a good game designer contribute to any type of game? Yes, absolutely!

Can a good game designer unfamiliar with the type of game in focus, design that kind of game by himself? No! Well, yes… But… It depends… A definite “maybe” perhaps?

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12
Oct
09

Topic 1: Can a good game designer design any type of game?

The first topic we’ll discuss is a topic about the very craft of game design.

Can a good game designer design any type of game?

Feel free to comment on this post as well and let us know what you think of it. Let’s hope for some opinions that boggles our minds!

Links (manually updated):

Arcade: http://aboutgamedesign.com/2009/10/12/a-good-designer-is-always-a-good-designer/

12
Oct
09

Hello World

Thank you for dropping in.

I bet you’re wondering what this is. I’ll have a go at trying to explain it.

About Game Design (AGD) is an experimental blog/discussion project where several professionals with design positions within the videogame development industry each write a post about a certain topic.

We’re all designers in one form or another, like game mechanics, level design and interface.

how does it work?

There is always one active topic which is a short question or statement relating to game design.

Each author on AGD that feels he want to then writes one post about what he/she, personally, think or where he/she stands on the subject. It can be any length, everything from a short bullet list to a long article.

Each post can stand by itself, never requiring you, the reader to having read a post by another author in advance.

The active topic is changed every two weeks and we do our best to try and scatter the publishing dates of our posts, so you’re not overrun by a huge amount of text and then greeted with two weeks silence.

I really hope you’ll enjoy this place and keep coming back or adding us to your reader. And we’d love to hear from you, so drop a comment or an e-mail and we’ll be sure to give you a virtual cookie +1. (Limited stock.)

Be hearing from ya!

- Arcade Berg, arcade [at] aboutgamedesign.com




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