quote:Original post by BelGarath
Neither game desinger has to be good programmer or artist but he is the most important person in the project.

Designers are not the most important person in the project, not even close, if that is all they do. Programmers and artists are, they are all you need to make a game. Anyone can design , it''s not hard.

I am gonna say a couple of words and close this thread. This is because it always develops into a flame war (especially given answers like the last one...), and because all the answers are there for you if you just do a search in this forum.

Basically, ''game designer'' means different things to different people. To some, it is "the idea guy" who comes up with ideas and expects others to implement them. In the real world, this rarely happens. More commonly you might have someone who oversees the project and makes all the key design decisions, but they are often called the "producer". For many, a designer is someone is creates specific content for the game, such as maps or weapons. Note that other people will have other definitions, and they will be right too, because "game designer" is a very vague (and pretty useless) term.

I would encourage people to use different terminology in order to reduce confusion (and arguments), but that''s a point for another thread.

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