I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time of the drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic's an interesting one. I get a lot of mail, and one of the questions that I get a lot from younger people is they go, I want to be a game designer.

How can I be a game designer?

Which is an interesting question, so much so that I want to talk about it today. So, okay, so let's say, for example, you like playing games and you seem intrigued by becoming

a game designer.

What are the steps to becoming a game designer? Now it's funny you ask me because

when I got into this business, things were really different. So I'm going to talk a little bit more

about sort of how you can become a game designer because how I became a game designer was a different time.

Okay, so let's start off with the most important thing.

If you wanted to be a writer, I would say make sure you read a lot of things.

If you wanted to be a musician, I was like, listen to lots of music.

Well, if you want to be a game designer, first and foremost, you need to design a lot,

I'm not design, sorry, you need to play a lot of games.

Like, one of the things about game, and this is like game playing is so important for a game designer, is there are, you need to learn the basics.

You need to understand, like if you're going to get into an art form, and I consider a game design an art form, you have to understand the art form, you have to understand the art form, you have to experience the basics. You need to understand, like, if you're going to get into an art form, and I consider

a game design an art form, you have to understand the art form, you have to experience the art

form. And that, so Richard Garfield, Magic's creator, who is, I consider the greatest game

designer I've ever met. I've not met lots, I mean, I'm not saying he's the greatest game designer of all time, although he's up there. Plus, I've not met a lot of other great game designers. But other people I've met, he is an amazing game designer. And one of the things that was fascinating about Richard is Richard loves games, loves playing games, and he's constantly trying out new games.

Like one of the most interesting things when I first got to Wizards was kind of, you know,

Richard really had this whole belief of, hey, you're making games, but you should be playing games.

And we used to play, you know, Richard was constantly playing games and he

introduced us to games. Like, he would introduce games to us in languages that, you know,

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