New World Designer

News & General Discussion
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Hi

I have been putting together a site that interviews professional game level and virtual world designers. Interviews are uploaded regularly.

Hopefully it will be an inspiring resource for developers. Any feedback or ideas for questions would be helpful.

http://newworlddesigner.blogspot.com/

thanks

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This looks promising! I like the name too.

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thanks.

Any ideas on questions that could be asked would be great, considering the complexity of the subject matter. Or world designers to try and interviews with - world designers seem such a shy and elusive breed - so I can only politely ask :smile:

That would be cool.

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it depends what sort of topics you want to cover.

as far as level design, i’d be interested in how people get their ideas for architecture, how they simplify levels to match requirements, how they achieve a mood in a level, their opinions on virtual worlds in general (richard bartle’s book on virtual world design is a hell of a great read, by the way, even if it is primarily mud focused).

i personally find the idea of world building interesting, regardless of whether its in a game, novel, etc. constructed languages, too. wikipedia’s article on world building might be an interesting read for you.

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Hey congratulations on the launch! Nice idea, will you also interview Unity developers? Layout could use some work in my opinion. Anyway I added it to my RSS feed! Good luck with the site.

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New interviews with Michael Licht, of Medal of Honor fame, and Aimee Weber of Second Life have been uploaded.

thanks