If you think about it, the Michael Douglas–Sean Penn movie The Game is about giving the rich and decadent the ultimate videogame-like experience. The movie is about how you can take someone who has a regular life, and put them in fantastic James Bond-Lara Croft like situations where they have horrible things happen to them, but they somehow escape unscathed. Well, designing a videogame is all about putting a person in the kind of situations that Michael Douglas found himself in in the movie. Except that it's all virtual.
It's about taking someone who has a regular life and elevating him to a different plane altogether.
When you come away from playing a game, you're supposed to feel like you've been through an experience – not like you’re just playing a game. Designing a videogame takes a designer who has a spectacular grasp over the nuts and bolts of programming, of design, art and at least a half-dozen other disciplines. It's a wonder that there are as many people out there designing a videogame as there are.
It's about taking someone who has a regular life and elevating him to a different plane altogether.
When you come away from playing a game, you're supposed to feel like you've been through an experience – not like you’re just playing a game. Designing a videogame takes a designer who has a spectacular grasp over the nuts and bolts of programming, of design, art and at least a half-dozen other disciplines. It's a wonder that there are as many people out there designing a videogame as there are.