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Month: April 2013

Trimming Down the One Page Design Doc

Written by mmittneron April 29, 2013April 30, 2013

I have been working on trying to cut down the design of Web. Obviously features will need to be cut, but as a first step I really wanted to see if I could streamline the overview design doc into something significantly more digestible. It is clear from the amount of text of the previous docs

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What’s in a name?

Written by mmittneron April 24, 2013October 11, 2013

R.I.P. Iain M Banks, you will be sorely missed. – 6/9/13 I recently changed the name of my blog again. I had changed it to “The Designer of Games” as a tribute to one of my favorite authors, Iain M Banks, who wrote “The Player of Games” and recently announced he was retiring after finding

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Initial Designs for Web

Written by mmittneron April 17, 2013April 29, 2013

I was walking home with my roommate Ross a few days ago and he asked me, “If you were going to put a project on Kickstarter, what would you do?” My first thought was that I would get a team together and start making an RPG. I have some outlines, and  art for one I’ve

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The Designer as Generalist

Written by mmittneron April 2, 2013April 9, 2013

I recently attended a luncheon during GDC thrown by Crystal Dynamics, and one of the designers from Crystal D said something that struck a chord with me. She said that a designer has to do a lot of living, just like a professional writer. Because you have to know about a lot of things, understand

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