"OK, well put your game-designer thinking caps on and analyze your experience, " Brendon said.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh, in one of her more somnambulant moods, plays an interactive-game designer named Allegra, who is attacked while showing off her new creation, eXistenZ.

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My guess is that many game development shops these days have multiple full-time people working to produce a game from a game designer, a sound designer, a graphic artist, and multiple developers.

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"Bioshock Infinite is a very big game, and we're doing things no-one has ever done in a first-person shooter, " said game designer Ken Levine in a message posted to the game's website.

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In traditional test marketing, a game designer might test different versions of, say, a polka-dot cow with a focus group.

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However, he was surprised it hit its funding target so swiftly despite there being no in-game footage available nor any direct involvement of original designer Chris Avellone.

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The recent release of pictures of Wozniacki's Wimbledon dress confirms the benefits of marrying a world-class designer with a global brand and an athlete at the top of her game.

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Emmert, who remains Cryptic's lead designer, produced 400 hours of content for the first version of the game, largely constructed in 45-minute chunks subdivided into a formula of 75% fighting, 25% talking and helping people.

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