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What do the top 1% best game designer in the world do every day? Do they spend a significant amount of time researching and benchmarking? Prototyping and playtesting? Learning side skills? Talking with other top professionals to hone their skills further?

What do the top 1% best game designer in the world do every day? Do they spend a significant amount of time researching and benchmarking? Prototyping and playtesting? Learning side skills? Talking with other top professionals to hone their skills further?

  • theJBDev
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
    What do the top 1% best game designer in the world do every day? Do they spend a significant amount of time researching and benchmarking? Prototyping and playtesting? Learning side skills? Talking with other top professionals to hone their skills further?

    • Iksar
      Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
      @theJBDev Top 1% usually find themselves in positions of leadership. Individual design growth starts to get outperformed by learning to be a better leader. Learning how to hire the best people. Learning to create clear goals for large groups. Learning how to get the most out of your team.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
        @theJBDev On an individual level, though? A little bit of time talking about games. Research and communication are fine, imo the real learning comes from seeing, trying, and iterating.

        • Iksar
          Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
          @theJBDev A lot of time playing games. Even ones you hate. Most of the best designers I know are extremely well-played across a wide variety of genres. If you are making a battlepass and you haven't played through one, I'm worried for you.

          • Iksar
            Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
            @theJBDev And.... a lot of time making games. The more successful a designer becomes, usually the further away you get from iteration and the more time you spend just talking about games. If you want to be a CEO, probably fine. If you want to be best designer, have to stay connected.

            • Iksar
              Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
              @theJBDev But, just my opinions of course. I haven't found nearly as much value in statistics research, talking, video watching. Great for business/genre strategy, less great for creating and maintaining great player experiences.
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