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Learn about game design with Dan Felder, Senior Game Designer, Riot Games

0:00 Intro

3:00 What is game design and what types of game designers are there?  

6:40 Systems design vs content design

10:00 How to get started in game design as a craft

13:00 Media design, new media, and interactive media

15:00 Storytelling and decision moments

19:00 How game design has changed in recent years

22:23 Using data in game design

25:12 What makes a game designer great?

29:00 General game designer POV on NFTs looking through the lens of history

36:50 Who makes game design decisions?

40:46 Designing board games as an easy way to try game design  

Referenced in the show: 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/-quot-the-door-problem-quot-of-game-design

https://ryanschultz.com/2021/04/24/to-teleport-or-not-to-teleport-teleporting-versus-walking-in-the-metaverse/

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzhHSexzpY