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Originally Posted by Ngruk  The next designer I meet that is not a gamer, will be the first. I've never met one, in 11 years of being in and around the industry I have never met a designer that was not a gamer.
That would be like hating sports but playing professionally, makes zero sense and I would not imagine that person would be very productive. |
Keyword is active gamer. I've found that a lot of the old timers cling to their ideas of what makes a good modern game, applying what they think is good based on their standards from years past. Some don't even pick up new titles to see what everyone else is doing. That's dangerous.
I dunno Curt, how many designers do you really come across? Just the ones that HR lets through? do you meet with designers from other studios often? It could just be that all the designers you're meeting are at the top of their field, and they're at the top because they go that extra mile. But there are a lot of bad designers out there.
