Magic words - "I am a game designer." start creating games as soon as possible and get confidence.
"you will fail many, many more time than you will succeed. But these failures are your only path to success."
There are many skills which will be useful. Some of them are animation, anthropology, architecture, brainstorming, business, cinematography, communication, creative writing, economics , engineering, history, management, maths, music,psychology, public speaking, sound design, technical writing and visual art.
Listening is a very important skill: the 5 listening groups team, audience, game, client, and self.
Need to understand when listening. Example from book page 5, line 16.
Need to listen to team as working with them.
Need to listen to audience as they're playing it.
Need to listen to game, so you know what's wrong with it.
Need to listen to client, they're paying for it .
Need to listen to self, will be able to make better games.
The secret of the gifted
Two types of gifts major gift and minor gift.
you have many skill which counts as minor gifts e.g. game design or maths.
major gift is love of the work, without this won't be willing to make games.
With major gift will keep making games -> keep making games = better at game making.
Hi Alex
ReplyDeleteGood notes, what you need to do now is to add a paragraph at the end that offers your thoughts on what you have read. What is the most important thing to take away from the reading, something else the paper made you think of, something you disagree with. That way you join the conversation and we can hear your voice.