I am Johan Pilestedt - Game Director and Lead Designer of Arrowhead Game Studios - Creators of Magicka.

My intentions with this blog is to explore what game design is to me. I have, for as long as I can remember, designed games without a thought on what works, or what doesn’t - going only by what I think games should be like.

I have decided to do something about this using this blog as the primary means. Over the course of… Well, however long this will take - delve deep into what I think of design and games.