The Role of a Game Designer

Hello, great to be back to my blog finally. I view it as a cottage for get away from the noisy urban settings where I reside. What partially boosted me to come back to visit my blog and write this new entry is the recent visit I had on two other blogs. They were not on game designer, but excellent blogs. Excellent in the following category or due to the following: neat pages, information entries, clean layouts.

What is the role of a game designer, I asked myself earlier. In brief, I view game designers for a game as screenwriters for a movie. Games, too have now become commercialized, so they are products, like movies. Movies have directors and screenwriters. In most cases, if we look back in history all the great movies had at least an excellent director and some good writers. The role of the writers in making of a movie similars to the role of a game designer for a game in these aspects: the game designer draws the layout, the "scenes" in the game; the director does the camera work, that is left to the director, much like how the programming part is done by the programmers, not the game designers. It's important to separate the two jobs and have them both in a company. Both of these works take (drains) great deal of memory capacity, which implies one who does both can walk in a lot of memory problems sorting out which work is what - trying to maintain proficiency in both rather than constantly improving one's abilities.

In other words, the role of a game designer is like the role of a screenwriter for a movie - to provide the content for a game and form a great team with the programmers. In movie-making, the director does the main camera setup, the cutting and pasting of films, special effects managements etc., which are the technical aspect of movie-making. What makes a game great is much similar to what make a great movie great - the content and how it's delivered. I believe the director handles the technical aspect of it, and if no screenwriter is there, then many movies would just be shots of random scenaries without the Jurrasic Park or storylines.