{"id":203,"date":"2009-10-30T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:21:33","slug":"game-designers-are-undervalued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/10\/game-designers-are-undervalued\/","title":{"rendered":"Game designers are undervalued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We need to talk in terms that oscillate between code, design, opinion, bringing together the fractured, disparate roles of game creation to reach a language and conversation that goes beyond technical frigidity.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212; David Surman<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGame design as a scholarly activity has been continually undermined by forces both within and without of the games industry. This was the controversial message from academic David Surman, speaking at the alternative British video game conference, Nottingham GameCity, earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Surman, a senior lecturer in game design at Newport Art School and one of the event\u2019s organizers was quick to point out that designers are some of the most poorly paid people in the games industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we don\u2019t value the game designer\u2019s role, their vision is often subsumed within the views of the higher-ups, when really their contributions should be the most highly-prized in the development process,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=25863\">Simon Parkin @ Gamasutra<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to talk in terms that oscillate between code, design, opinion, bringing together the fractured, disparate roles of game creation to reach a language and conversation that goes beyond technical frigidity.&#8221; &#8212; David Surman Game design as a scholarly activity has been continually undermined by forces both within and without of the games industry. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}