My grandfather was a teacher. My mother was a teacher. Her sister still is, as are two cousins. You might say that teaching is the family business. As the craft of game design became an increasingly large part of my life, it felt natural to desire teaching it as well as pursuing it.
I’ve thought about writing a book on game design since 2003. For ten years, the project was set aside on the rationale that I was not experienced enough, had not done enough, had published too few games. The best books on design–Chris Crawford on Game Design, Sid Sackson’s Gamut of Games, New Rules For Classic Games–were all authored by wisened experts. Clearly I needed to wait.
A decade later, my friend Crystal Stemberger proves daily how wrong that attitude is. The best time to write about anything is while you are doing it.
And that is the purpose of this site. To discuss game design as it’s happening. To offer insight into its craft. We learn the most from our mistakes so I shall work to be candid about my mistakes–there will be plenty of them. Design is an active conversation between craftsman and audience so you will read the active debates and my particular take on them. If you are a game enthusiast, these posts offer a window into my process. If you are an aspiring designer, these posts are meant to keep you thinking about the active questions so you may find your own answers. If you are an active designer, these posts are an invitation to share your own views–doubly so if they differ from my own.
Welcome to my mind. Enjoy the ride!
Kevin G Nunn 
I’m extremely impressed along with your writing abilities as neatly as with the structure for your blog. Is that this a paid topic or did you modify it your self? Anyway keep up the excellent high quality writing, it is rare to look a great blog like this one today..
Thank you–I shall make every effort to keep the writing solid!
As to your question, this blog post was not written for pay although I’m entirely in favor of earning a living with my writing. 😉
Welcome to blogging, Kevin! 🙂
Thank you Crystal!
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I’ve been browsing online more than 4 hours today, yet I never found any
interesting article like yours. It’s pretty worth
enough for me. Personally, if all web owners and bloggers made
good content as you did, the web will be much more
useful than ever before.
Thanks for the Blog Kevin, I look forward to some interesting reading/discussion.
My only suggestion would be to somehow highlight where you add a comment. My browser (Google Chrome) only had a small greyed out link underneath the Title that said “Comments”. It took me a while to find it, of course, that could be my personal limitation. 🙂
Peace
Thank you Brent! We’ll try that. 🙂
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issues. To the next! Best wishes!!