Reading 08

Reading 08

Introduction

What exactly is a game designer? A question that many people have asked multiple times over the years of the up rise of the game creation era. Trying to highlight what exactly a game designer is and does is no easy task, but can definitely be succinctly explained in simple terms, by describing the roles and responsibilities of a game developer to date. As many people over the course of the years have become confused with knowing what the difference between a game designer and developer is, it is quite important that pinpointing the exact definitions is crucial, especially to the ones who look to partake in the game creation community as a career.  There are multiple different reasons as to why someone would commence their career in the game design industry a lot of it is to do with curiosity and their love and passion for games. It is important to get this right in knowing why people get into the industry in the first place which will ultimately lead to a better understanding of, what is a game designer anyways? Knowing why people get into it helps us understand the roles in which they partake when designing, it is easier to pinpoint the extraordinary work that goes into the artwork and stories behind the games that we play today.

Conclusion

By studying and understanding the roles and responsibilities of a game designer it makes it a lot easier to come up with a solid answer to the question asked, what is a game designer? Knowing what an individual does during the process of a game being developed paints a clearer picture for people who may not know what a game designer is and gives them a better understanding. Knowing the difference between game designers and developers is crucial into again understanding what a game designer is, knowing this will completely define the question and any uncertainty or confusion of what a game designer is in the industry. Through research on this is a great way to not only find out more on the job but to also find out if the job is for you or not. Once more knowing why people get into the industry and the reasons why they do so, defines the question down even further and can link into the work that is involved within the game development and highlights what game designers do. The process can be difficult when being a game designer however, but knowing the proper practices on what to do will help better understand the roles and responsibilities partaken in the game development stage. In simple terms knowing what, why and how game designers go about their career helps us identify what exactly a game designer is?

This weeks task was quite difficult to be honest, the introduction was quite hard to write because I wanted to make it so I wasn't saying all my content in detail in the introduction, rather I just wanted to kind of summarize it in a way that it will entice the readers to read on and find out more on the piece. The outro was even hard I won't lie, because I had no meat of the content done, writing an outro is hard because I have nothing to summarize off of really other than my bibliographies and themes from them, however with constant reflection on what I was reading I was eventually able to come up with a somewhat acceptable introduction and a conclusion. Then the questionnaire was fairly easy to make. It was just making it so I was able to see that the viewers understood what they had read.