A “prophetic” project from when i worked in Some Think Creative Office Before i even think about game design, me, Marilena Agathou, Tassos Papaioannou, Maria Thymi and Mary Mourtika came up with a card game idea :

A redesigned usual pack of cards to which we added six extra cards, six superhero cards. Each of which had special abilities.

Rules: Play whatever card game you wish. Throw the special hero cards whenever it is your turn and just follow the specific rules that apply to each hero. i.e. Goyiamma: Every player has to give his cards to the player sitting on his right Fawfug: Pick two players of your choice and without looking, trade two random cards and laugh out loud.

Of course at that time, playtesting was a unknown word to us. We wanted to play our game, without ever searching for game design problems. Honestly, that proved to be an important fun factor!

Hello, i don't how to draw but i like think, so i will write some line about difference between pro and amateur (english is not my native language so i will make a lot of grammar fault).

If you watch tumblr art you have a lot of pro and amateur who post their art.

Have you ever think about what's the difference between them?

First though that come it's skill maybe? But it's wrong, you can find amateur who have a great skill and some pro who skill can be so so.

So what's make you a pro? The will to gamble your life in that domain.

For example illustrator.

Even if you have top skills, a lot of follower/like and you won some money with you art, you are not a pro. Maybe half-pro but if you can't live with your art, you can't be called pro (even you are an art student or ex-art student you are still not  a pro).

Other thing, maybe if an amateur began to work as a pro, their draw can lose some appeal, pro have to endure pressure of editors and respect deadlines, these two thing can put a lot of work on your mental (specialy when you have an art block).

Some resume if you are a pro:

-you won money

-you live with your passion

-your passion can be a lot a preassure

If you are an amateur:

-you can do what you want, when you want

-you have to do an other jobs

- less time for passion

Conclusion is the main differenec between pro and amateur could be money, you gamble to earn money for you life with your illusation, if you fail to earn enough of money, you will need to do other job and you can't work at yout art during these job (that can became a vicious circle).

This is my way to see the difference between pro and amateur (and a little exemple with illustrator but i can take computer science too).

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