Make It So: The Search for the Next Assistant Game Designer

Make It So: The Search for the Next Assistant Game Designer is a reality-show style competition that will award the winner a spot as an Assistant Designer position for an upcoming Second Edition virtual expansion. In October 2009, we opened up applications for the inagural year of the competion. For 2010, a total of twenty (20) applicants were accepted and invited to compete for one Assistant Game Designer position.

Because the current contest is underway, no new applications are being accepted.

The competion is made up of three phases, each of which have slight differences in how the players compete against one another. Phase I began with the first challenge on Thursday, January 14th, and will last for the first four challenges of the competition. This phase involves four teams that are grouped into two head-to-head matches: the Bajoran Team versus the Cardassian Team, and the Klingon Team against the Romulan Team. Each challenge, one team from each pairing is declared the winner, and one member of the losing teams will be eliminated.

Phase II will begin once we are down to twelve competitors, at which point the players will be shuffled around into two new teams of six members each. Procedurally, this phase of the competition will be identical to the previous phase, except only one contestant will be eliminated each challenge.

Phase III of Make It So will begin once six of the contestants have been eliminated and the final six remain. In this phase, there will be no more teams and the remaining contestants will work entirely on their own. There will be a special, final challenge once all but the top three contestants have been eliminated, and from those final three the Next Assistant Game Designer will be crowned.