Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

About Me

My name is Arcade. I guess that alone tells a lot about me.

I'm a designer.

Most of all, I'm a game designer. It's what I love doing; fiddling with game mechanics, gameplay, cognitive psychology, human and computer interaction, etc.

I'm currently a Game Designer and the Community Manager at Epic Games Poland (People Can Fly). As far as Game Design goes I focused primarily on User Interaction, Skillshots, Achievements and the Echoes Mode in our latest game Bulletstorm. Parallell with Design I've been working hard on PCF's viral marketing, our fans and our channels to reach them. This includes a variety of things, such as setting up and running the official PCF Blog and writing for several different large international magazines and portals.

I've worked with several different studios on several different games of several different scopes and for several different platforms.

I have a Bachelor Degree from the University in Skövde in Sweden after studying three years of Computer Game Development - Game Design.

This site started out as a tool for me to help to collect my thoughts into more than random nonsense. The reason I called this blog "Learning Game Design" isn't because I'm going to try and teach you anything, but because I will keep learning every day and become better at what I do. I'd say I'm quite skilled today, but then again I thought the same thing about myself a few years ago. The following year I thought "Man, was I way off or what?" and yet again, one year later history repeated itself and that's life, right? As I learn new things and find new angles and perspectives I thought I'd share some of it with you guys.

Even though I haven't posted in a very long time due to my commitment to my current employer, you can still read all of my previous posts here.

/Arcade

Here's a drawing of me made by a colleague. But don't worry, I usually wear pants.