1-year milestone. Part 3.2: But aren’t we all game designers? Yes and no, most of the time – no.

Here it comes, the most interesting part of my monologue. The question of who are the game designers to me and why most of us, students, aren’t game designers when we are working in a group. As I have already pointed out, game designers as a title were avoided like the plague in the descriptions of the courses. Furthermore, all branches are called Game Design. Yet the role of a game designer is a specific role in the group.
So, are […]

1-year milestone. Part 3.1: Why did game designers get robbed of their title?

1-milestone. Part 3.1: Why were the game designers robbed of their title?
Finally, the part of this blog that I looked forward to most. And while I thought to start this part of discussing the game designers a bit differently, the fates decided otherwise.  Someone might have mentioned this in our designer class discussions, but I have no memory of this. Perhaps I will make a fool out of myself, but I feel that this is an important observation which needs […]