{"id":1800,"date":"2010-12-14T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2011-02-13T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:49:59","slug":"game-design-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/12\/game-design-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Design Has Become a Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To a game designer, everything is game design &#8230; including game design:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe most exclusive game on Facebook is also the most lucrative and intense: the game design of the games themselves. For designers in the space, particularly those from the traditional game industry, game design has become its own game, complete with a leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every night at midnight, I check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appdata.com\/\">AppData<\/a>,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Romero\">John Romero<\/a>, a veteran video game designer, consultant and lead designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appdata.com\/apps\/facebook\/120563477996213-ravenwood-fair\">Ravenwood Fair<\/a>. The site has become a de facto leaderboard for many developers, backed up by weekly top games lists.<\/p>\n<p>Imbued by a deep love of game play, many designers view social game design, and the competition it creates with other designers, as a real-time strategy game, complete with in-depth stats and armies composed of coders, artists, animators and product managers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidesocialgames.com\/2010\/12\/13\/game-design-has-become-a-game\/\">Brenda Brathwaite<\/a> @ Inside Social Games\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a game designer, everything is game design &#8230; including game design: The most exclusive game on Facebook is also the most lucrative and intense: the game design of the games themselves. For designers in the space, particularly those from the traditional game industry, game design has become its own game, complete with a leaderboard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}