Video Game Designers
Also called:
Design Director, Game Designer, Senior Game Designer, World Designer
What they do:
Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.
On the job, you would:
- Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.
- Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features.
- Create core game features including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- design
Arts and Humanities
Communications
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- create new and original ideas
- come up with lots of ideas
Attention
- pay attention to something without being distracted
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They do well at jobs that need:
- Innovation
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Analytical Thinking
- Cooperation
- Adaptability/Flexibility
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Examples of the technology used in this career will be available soon.
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bachelor's degree or
associate's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$81,140
per year, on average
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