Terry Greer is a games design lecturer at Falmouth University and has 30 years of experience in the games industry. He worked at Microprose, Jagex and Blitz, on projects like XCOM and Runescape. In this episode, Terry tells us about the art of designing games, the high pressure environment of pitching games ideas for a studio and how students are learning to design their own game projects.
In the episode, Terry recommends the following:
FTL making of GDC talk Designing without a Pitch
Fallout London Team
Team FOLON's progress videos on their Youtube channel
Liz England - The Door Problem
Jennifer Scheurle - GDC lecture on hidden mechanics
Doctor Bounce student games project
Links to Terry's projects:
Terry's website - https://www.terrygreer.com/
Terry's novel - Jangada Trilogy
Some games we talked about:
Fallout London
Elder Scrolls 4: Skyrim
Ant Attack (Spectrum)
The Hobbit (Spectrum)
FTL
Elder Scrolls Online
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Left 4 Dead
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