Games Design

[SAS]

Over on the Penny Arcarde Monolith's Geoffrey Zatkin, one of the orginial designers of EverQuest, and recently involved in the Matrix Online talks about the world of the game designer.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Excuse my french but...

"So, to summarize, we're a young industry full of pale, egotistical people that dream up ambitious games, work impossible hours and sometimes smell a bit funny.

God do I love it. "

A-f*cking-men.

Wouldn't trade this designer(luckily not lead...*shivers*...couldn't do anything!) job for all the women in the world.

Well....maybe for a few sessions with Portia De Rossi but...

He did forget one thing...we also talk about odd things. Like vertexes sorting out with the striped polygons so that the alpha-maps don't cause crashes for the pre-beta models of the lowpoly renderings....or sumnot...