In order to deal with the backlash of the recent interview with PCGamer in which we learned that Lord British virtually never met a game designer that was any good, he comes with an explanation.
In it he explains that it is the press who has put his quotes out of context and they are an inaccurate representation of the intent of his full commentary.
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In it he explains that it is the press who has put his quotes out of context and they are an inaccurate representation of the intent of his full commentary.
He also discusses again why game design is so hard to learn and that most people in game design are not good at it.Perhaps my statement that has been quoted so often in recent days could have been presented in a more eloquent fashion. But I stand by the point I was making, that game design is the hardest profession in our business to understand and to learn.
Which in my opinion is the same thing as he said before, but nicer. However to be sure you should read the entire thing for the proper context.Sadly, I really do think that most people who get into design roles on a team have no more skills at design than the programmers and artists. They may not be worse, but they rarely have better training than theothers to tackle the hardest job of all, determining what game is going to be built.
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