This interview with Jez Harris of Relentless Software is both humorous and insightful. A game designer really *does* have to wear multiple hats; and even though we believe this to be unique to independent games, even people working for EA don’t always know what they’ll be doing. Harris also discusses his work on the “Catwoman” video game of 2004, highlighting that sometimes a designer knows a game is going to be bad, but their hands are tied anyways.
(This post was broken in the virus issues of July 2010, and the link to the original article as well as full title was lost. If anyone happens to know this information, please tell me so I can fix it. Thanks!)
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