3.4 The Game Designer
By this point it should be obvious what a Game Designer does;he determines
what the nature of the gameplay is by creating the game‘s design. The terms ―Game Designer‖ and ―Game Design‖
have been used in such a wide variety of contexts for so long that their meanings have become
diluted and hard to pin down. Some seem to refer to
Game Design as being synonymous with Game Development. These people refer to anyone working on a computer game, whether artist,
programmer, or producer, as a Game Designer. ―I prefer a more specific definition,as I have outlined above: the Game Designer is the person who designs the game, who thereby establish-es the shape and nature of the gameplay
.‖(Ogden, S., Falstein, N.2005)