July 4th, 2018 Video

Oscar Talk: Game Director vs. Game Designer

https://youtube.com/embed/vUW3pockA5Y?autoplay=1&start=209&end=281

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Transcript

tasks to do changes in scope basically because when he start out in the beginning of a project he do very very broad strokes as for game director verses came to find her it's it's a lot of I guess administrative work now or get also review people's work I'm basically a gatekeeper is this done or not people will you know they will come to you and they will tell you like oh I saw this the one we added this thing I thought this would be really cool and sometimes that's absurd it's like no that's that's a terrible idea but sometimes it's a really good idea what's more important is knowing Tydeus work well together so what you should do is you should let people express their ideas to you bad ideas are not necessarily always bad they just don't fit in this case so filter out the things that don't fit and let the things that fit well go in because you make the game better and you make that person you know more excited to work on the game, often people don't really know like they had this idea and they they don't really know what it is and they're trying to express it so sometimes you gotta help them you know get it out it's sort of