This is a guide for beginners with hints and suggestions, website to follow, games to play and books to read. So, if you want to be a game designer, throw an eye. The guide tries to give some answers to the first question every game designer to-be has in mind: What does a game designer do? What should I learn? What courses should I follow? Do I have to draw or program? This guide has been created by Urustar, a small indie game development studio based in Genova (Italy).