{"id":1008,"date":"2016-06-08T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/gdamg\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2016-06-08T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:49:44","slug":"what-is-a-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/gdamg\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/what-is-a-game-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a &#8220;Game Designer&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text &#8211; what is a designer&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_programmer\">Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Game design<\/b> is the art of applying <a title=\"Design\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design\">design<\/a> and aesthetics to create a <a title=\"Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game\">game<\/a> to facilitate interaction between players for entertainment or for medical, educational, or experimental purposes. Game design can be applied both to games and, increasingly, to other interactions, particularly virtual ones (see <a title=\"Gamification\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamification\">gamification<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Game design creates goals, rules, and challenges to define a sport, <a title=\"Tabletop game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabletop_game\">tabletop game<\/a>, <a title=\"Casino game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casino_game\">casino game<\/a>, <a title=\"Video game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video_game\">video game<\/a>, <a title=\"Role-playing game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Role-playing_game\">role-playing game<\/a>, or <a title=\"Simulation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simulation\">simulation<\/a> that produces desirable interactions among its participants and, possibly, spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Academically, game design is part of <a title=\"Game studies\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_studies\">game studies<\/a>, while <a title=\"Game theory\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_theory\">game theory<\/a> studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired seminal research in the fields of <a title=\"Probability\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probability\">probability<\/a>, <a title=\"Artificial intelligence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, economics, and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Optimization theory\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optimization_theory\">optimization theory<\/a>. Applying game design to itself is a current research topic in <a title=\"Metadesign\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metadesign\">metadesign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text &#8211; what is a designer&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;] Wiki Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game to facilitate interaction between players for entertainment or for medical, educational, or experimental purposes. 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