Game design involves creating the content and rules of a game while balancing various factors like story, depth, breadth, intellectual challenge, and fun. The designer acts as a leader who must make hard decisions to create a cohesive experience while accounting for constraints like skills, systems, and market demands. Breaking into the industry requires passion, networking within the community through testing, tools, or writing, and persistence in applying for roles domestically or overseas.

1. Game Design (from the school of hard knocks) Craig Thomler (ex-Game designer/reviewer) BarCamp Canberra 2008 www.slideshare.net/CraigThomler/game-design-bar-camp-canberra-2008/

2. Submarine Titans Developer: Ellipse Studios Distributor: Strategy First Released: 09/2000 Sold: approx 30,000 Success: Not financially