GAME DESIGN SPECIALIZATION
Relatively speaking, game design is a new discipline. While there have been professional composers, painters, writers, and architects for at least half a millennium, there has only been a class of specialized “game designers” for the past 50 years, and that class has only reached a healthy size in the last 20–25 years or so.
We are still in the early history—or possibly pre-history—of the discipline of game design. If you observe the progression of the discipline of, say, music composition throughout history, you can clearly see that there is a massive increase in the quality of work around the time that an institutional study and respect for the craft began. Much of our understanding ...
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