{"id":958,"date":"2012-02-16T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:26:42","slug":"arnold-hendrick-hiring-game-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/arnold-hendrick-hiring-game-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Hendrick: &#8220;Hiring Game Designers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdhancock\/3583038761\/\" title=\"Humble Beginning by JD Hancock, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3604\/3583038761_f2d462eb27.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Humble Beginning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first of a series of reflections and responses to articles on game design.  They are recommended for my Game Design course.<\/p>\n<p>The first article is by <a href=\"http:\/\/mmotidbits.com\/about\/\">Arnold Hendrick<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3261\/hiring_game_designers.php\">&#8220;Hiring Game Designers&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This feels like a practical and robust guide to being an employable game designer.  Not necessarily a good game designer (although there are similarities) but this specifically lists traits that companies are (or should be) looking for.  I really appreciate this &#8211; there was a lot of information in this article that was new to me, and that I feel I should have been exposed to by now.<\/p>\n<p>The first new bit of information was the distinction between lead designer and assistant designer.  Maybe this is obvious, but I hadn\u2019t given it much thought before.  I (and probably most aspiring designers) had always pictured myself in a lead designer role, making large strategic decisions about the game and diving into details whenever necessary.  But now I realize that my first position is likely to be all details.  The good news is, I\u2019m totally comfortable with that.<br \/>\nNext up:  I need a writing sample.  I\u2019m not sure why I forgot to put this in my portfolio last semester.  I\u2019ll probably put a game design assignment up this semester as my sample.<\/p>\n<p>The third major insight I gleaned was that I haven\u2019t identified my \u201cother stuff\u201d knowledge areas that will benefit me as a designer.  My deepest knowledge is in computer science, mathematics, and physics, which may not cut it next to a designer who is an expert in World War II tanks.  I need to invest more time studying history, anthropology, and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this degree will allow me to sidestep playtesting as a path into the industry.  I\u2019d much rather get a job as a programmer or a design internship and shift into a game design position from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a series of reflections and responses to articles on game design. They are recommended for my Game Design course. The first article is by Arnold Hendrick: &#8220;Hiring Game Designers&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-games","tag-arnold-hendrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}