Hello and welcome to my blog!
My name is Gleb and I recently finished my first year at Uppsala University in Bachelor Programme in Game Design. During this year I got to meet a lot of different people and experience a lot of things. The most important thing I realised was that I made the right choice by deciding to embrace my passion for games and wanting to create games for others.
So, what is the point of this blog? This blog series is a reflection, a year-long Post Mortem if you’d like to call it that way, where I map things that I feel are important to understand and be aware of when one is journeying towards the world of game development. This is MY roadmap, something I create so that I may return to and remind myself of these important things should I lose the sight of this road.
What can you expect to find here? I’m using the word “experience” and here is a good definition for this word:
-practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
This is about observations of fact, events, but also of similar behaviours in different people. If you pay enough attention, the patterns with emerge! I love the word “pattern”. If I reach the end of this personal project, you will understand why 😉
I plan to tackle on several topics in a series of blog posts, starting with the general thoughts about the past year, moving on to the experiences of working in a group of people from different disciplines, and finally a discussion of the role of a designer in the group (I’m a designer!). So, basically, I’m slowly zooming from a very broad topic to a very specific one – what is my job in a group that creates a game? And I will try to structure this discussion as best as I can, but naturally, some questions can be taken to several areas, so do take this with a spoon of salt. I am also discussing this from my perspective, and I know there are other perspectives out there.
As you can imagine, these are my opinions. I am not trying to convince anyone of some kind of truths and I am not any sort of higher authority in these questions. If you are one of my fellow students, I invite you to reflect on your own journey and perhaps clash your opinions with mine or show your support of these opinions. If you are someone, who is about to start learning Game development, you might find some useful information that I wish I knew when I started this education. If you are someone who is already experienced in this field, then you might not find anything new here at all and that is fine too.
So once again, join in! Perhaps after I’m done with all I want to say, I can make another section where I bring to light your perspectives, experiences and revelations. Whether you are an artist, a designer, a programmer or a producer (project manager) – any feedback is welcome!
All this writing was done while listening to THEFATRAT. Shout out to my Guild Wars2 guilds where someone linked those wonderful mixes! All of the [WIPE] and [PLS] – you guys are great!
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