Game Design

Unlock your creative potential: 7 steps to becoming a game designer

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Update: Slideshare removed their audio functionality, so this is just slides for now. I will replace with a YouTube video in the near future

Slides and audio from a talk on game design delivered at PAX Prime ’12.

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Gamer-in-Residence for Connect Ventures. Former Executive Producer for Legendary: Heroes Unchained & Tetris, former Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes. Podcast host for Deconstructor of Fun. Loves Ratchet & Clank, Smash TV and Persona 4: Golden. Still plays PS Vita.

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This article is the fifth in a series on how to land a job as a game designer. Check out previous posts for details on setting your career goal, building your portfolio, learning how to sell your experiences and writing your resume. If you’ve followed the series of articles up till now, then you’ve sent your resume and portfolio out to the world and are landing some interviews. The previous article on writing your resume covered the general process of phone and in […]

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Getting to tangible, high quality conversations and iteration with your game engineers is a critical skill for game designers. Writing docs with a game engineer “client” in mind will boost your effectiveness and the ultimate quality of your games.

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