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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#732: Annie Sardelis

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I'm interviewing Annie Sardelis, one of the members of the Creative team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another episode of Drive to Work, Coronavirus Edition.

0:08.7

Okay, so I've been interviewing people because it's hard for me to do that in my car, but I can do that at home.

0:14.2

So on the phone right now, I have Annie Sardellis. So Annie, say hi.

0:19.1

Oh, hi. I'm Annie.

0:21.0

So, Annie, let's explain to the people what you do.

0:23.5

What part of R&D do you work in?

0:27.8

Oh, okay.

0:28.4

So I am a game designer on the world building team.

0:32.6

That means I help create the original worlds and characters for the tabletop card game.

0:38.4

I'm not a game designer in the sense that I put the text on the cards outside of the flavor

0:44.0

text and card names most of the time.

0:46.1

So I work mostly developing the new worlds with other members of the team, hang out with design

0:52.8

and the art team to create resources for everyone

0:56.5

and just make up a lot of fun new stuff.

0:59.9

So how did you end up at Wizards?

1:02.8

Oh, okay.

1:04.5

Previously, I was working at another smaller game company where we were working on card games

1:09.7

and I got to do a little bit of everything.

1:12.1

So smaller companies, you sort of end up dabbling in a lot of different things.

1:15.9

So not only did I do like card design and testing, I also wrote art descriptions for all of

1:22.4

the card art that we would release.

1:25.0

And that ended up being quite the job I would come to discover insofar that it was literally

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