Ultimate Game Design : Building game worlds

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Bay Raitt’s sculptural modeling technique
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and manage timely content delivery is very useful experience in a lead design role. Try
to remember that other designers have the same goals you do. They want to grow and
work on diverse aspects of a game’s overall design requirements. As a team lead, you
will walk a fine line between trying your best to support the growth and development
of your peers, while maintaining commercial product goals and budgets.
Each of the suggestions that I’ve mentioned here is aimed at helping you start or
continue to define yourself as a game designer. As a practical point, don’t forget that
for every developer engaged in making a game, you have a potentially different defi
nition of exactly what a designer’s role is on the development team. It’s best to be
prepared for any opportunity that might come your way by having as diverse a skill
set as you possibly can. This doesn’t mean that you have to be able to do everything
game building requires. You need to focus your efforts on defining core abilities.
Unless you’re building a very small game, you’ll be working with a team of highly
specialized contributors.
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