This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Missingmatter has a Q&A with battle-scarred veteran of games design Tom Sloper. It’s not a name I’ve come across before, but a quick look round his site should give you some idea of the extent of his resume. And as a pure designer with no background in programming he has an interesting, non-technical take on the industry.