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The Reality of Gaming

Creating Games Requires

A plan: what are you making?
A particular set of skills:
- creativity
- problem solving
- troubleshooting
- programming
- reading / observing / comprehension
- attention to detail
- experimentation / research
- abstraction - be able to dive deep into many levels of thought
- writing - ability to express thoughts
- math / numerical literacy - know how to manipulate numbers in a favorable way
Follow-through:
- ability to focus and pay attention to minute details for long periods of time
- ability to work on a large, multi-faceted, and complex problem without being able to necessarily see tangible results until it is much closer to completion
- ability to experiment and dabble; there's no “recipe book” you can follow to make a game. You need to understand underlying concepts and know how to apply them in a particular situation