The Declaration of Game Designer Independence 1. Without game design, there is nothing You can get rid of visuals, music, business or technology and we will still make great games. 2. Designers must drive the vision of the game We are prime movers, not replaceable cogs. 3. We dedicate ourselves to the lifelong mastery of…

Such was the work-around required by the censorship practiced by America’s corporate gatekeepers. You’d almost think these news-starved Americans were Iron Curtain citizens clandestinely trying to pull in the jammed Voice of America signal in the 1950s — or Egyptians desperately seeking Al Jazeera after Mubarak disrupted its signal last week. Wallflowers at the Revolution…