Very interesting man, thank you for doing this!
Yeah! LD's are the best! 
Ah, glad to see the results of this 
Looks like you got a pretty good response to it too - ~1000 is a decent number to work off.
I think some of these are definitely skewed by the fact most people who took the test are modders or modders and pros at the same time, answering mainly as modders. But it is a good exercise regardless, makes for some good figures to take a snapshot of what being a modder means today
Interesting results. Like Furyo, I definitely get the feeling that these results stem from lots of mod level designer input. Either way, it was neat to check it out. I can only say thank god that "Not knowing what to do" won the single-player problems.
interesting. thanks!
Forty-nine percent became professional level designers by starting out in the mod community. Only 18 percent graduated from a game development course. Fourteen percent graduated from a related course (for example a multimedia course). Only a very mere 5 percent of the people rolled into the position through QA, so unlike it is often claimed, QA does not seem to be a common way to break into the industry, at not least for level designers.
Awesome stuff, good sir. 
Quote from HourencesThe report mentions that some of these are indeed skewed because of too high number of modders who took it.
I know I know, I did read the whole thing. I was just further emphasizing that
thanks for that. great great survery and if you can do it again for only pros in the industry, or at least segment all the charts out by pros/modders, that would be awesome. we need more research like this. looking forward to what you do next.
How about you send emails to different companies and ask them to do it.
And then send tests to gamers etc. to see what people actually want.
Nobody cares about the designers tbh, but everyone cares about communities.
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