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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #314 - Getting a Job

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about how people can get a job in Magic R&D at Wizards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway.

0:02.5

We all know what that means.

0:03.9

It's time to drive to work.

0:06.3

Okay.

0:07.2

So today's topic, it's addressing a question I get asked all the time.

0:13.0

So the question is, I want to become a game designer.

0:16.9

How do I become a game designer?

0:20.4

So that's, it's interesting. One designer? So that's...

0:21.5

It's interesting.

0:23.4

One of the things that's very funny is a lot of my critics like to point out that I had no training in game design.

0:30.6

And one of the reasons is what I was, you know, back in the day, it wasn't something you could study.

0:35.8

It wasn't something you could go to college and actually learn about.

0:39.5

I think games have definitely advanced quite a bit in the last 20 years as far as how the

0:46.1

public thinks about them.

0:48.1

So anyway, today's topic is sort of talking about if you want to be a game designer, what

0:53.8

do you need to do to be a game designer?

0:55.4

I'm going to talk a little bit about sort of what game design is

0:58.4

and how one can become a game designer.

1:00.4

I even talk a little bit about Wizards in particular.

1:03.6

Okay, so the first question is you want to become a game designer.

1:07.7

So let's walk through what is necessary to become a game designer.

1:11.8

So first and foremost, you need to understand games.

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