{"id":3362,"date":"2010-11-12T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2010-11-12T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:51:38","slug":"the-escapist-video-galleries-extra-credits-so-you-want-to-be-a-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"The Escapist : Video Galleries : Extra Credits : So You Want to be a Game Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"650\" height=\"391\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.themis-media.com\/videos\/config\/2443-b3ea814fac5f5bca85bb398adfacd83d.js%3Fplayer_version%3D2.5%26embed%3D1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn2.themis-media.com\/media\/global\/movies\/player\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"650\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.themis-media.com\/media\/global\/movies\/player\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf\" quality=\"high\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.themis-media.com\/videos\/config\/2443-b3ea814fac5f5bca85bb398adfacd83d.js%3Fplayer_version%3D2.5%26embed%3D1\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shannon pointed me to an animation on The Escapist about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/extra-credits\/2443-So-You-Want-to-be-a-Game-Designer\">So You Want to be a Game Designer<\/a>. The animation provides advice on what people should learn starting with &#8220;everything&#8221; (as in you need to learn everything.) More realistically the animation suggests that you develop these skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communication &#8211; so you can communicate with a diverse team<\/li>\n<li>Listening &#8211; because you won&#8217;t design the game others will with you<\/li>\n<li>Introspection and ability to take criticism &#8211; because there will be lots of criticism<\/li>\n<li>Disciplined study of games &#8211; because playing lots doesn&#8217;t make a good game designer<\/li>\n<li>Understand costs and scope &#8211; because games need to be finished and on budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The animation goes on to discuss how important a knowledge of literature, philosophy and mythology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon pointed me to an animation on The Escapist about So You Want to be a Game Designer. The animation provides advice on what people should learn starting with &#8220;everything&#8221; (as in you need to learn everything.) More realistically the animation suggests that you develop these skills: Communication &#8211; so you can communicate with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Escapist : Video Galleries : Extra Credits : So You Want to be a Game Designer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}