Jesse Schell: The Art of Games Design

In this post i will be writing up the notes i have taken while reading Jesse Schell: The Art of Games Design, Chapter 1: In the beginning, there is the Designer.

Anyone can be a games Designer it's an act of will, if you repeat things eventually you will become what you say. "I am a games Designer".
"I am a games Designer"
"I am a games Designer"
"I am a games Designer"
"I am a games Designer"

In games designing nearly every skill is utilised, passion is needed, however the most important skill you need is the ability to listen, to be able to listen and understand what other people are asking of you, for example your target audience.
You are not making a game for yourself, you are making it for other people to enjoy and play.
To do this you must understand your audience, you must learn them, find out things from them.. You must listen to the so that you can make a game that they truly love.

Embrace your failures they will make you better at what you do, a failure today will be a success tomorrow.

Passion is better than talent, if you have the talent but lack the passion you will never be able to make as good games as people that have passion but may have less talent than you.