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Video Game Designer

Presentation by: Cordell

Job Description

Job Description

  • Usually works under a lead designer
  • Their jobs are to create character(s) for games
  • Writing storylines for games
  • Play testing the game to make sure its actually fun
  • Gets tasks depending on their skills like

(Coding, Animating, Drawing, Storyline writing.)

Pros and Cons

Pros and

Cons

Cons

  • It's a very competitive industry
  • You may have technical difficulty
  • Long work hours
  • Constant updates of the game and character balancing

Pros

  • The work environment is very casual and a nice atmosphere.
  • The education requirements aren't really required, but is very beneficial to have.
  • You do what you love. You get to play games that you've helped designed

Skills

Skills needed

Interest and experience in gaming

Interest and experience in gaming is a must because if you've never played or experienced different games and seen all the different story lines then you aren't really going to have a good game.

Artistic ability

Artistic ability is obviously a must have when it comes to being a video game designer, without it how is anybody going to expect to make a game when they cant even create a character or map for the game.

Collaboration

Collaboration is one of the most important things when it comes to being a video game designer because you are part of a team and you need to do your part. Think of things like a puzzle piece you create 1 part and you need to piece everyone elses parts together in order to create the whole puzzle (The video game).

Education

Education

  • A degree isnt really required to become a computer game designer, but those with more formal training get more opportunities to get a job in the field.

  • If you were to get your bachelors's degree in computer technology or computer science, you are way more than likely to get a job than the people that took a certificate program.

Certificate Programs

  • Certificate programs dont take long to complete and are an easier way of getting into computer game designing

  • Certificate programs take roughly a year to complete and they teach you programming, game mathematics and storyline development.

Associate's Degree

  • An associate's degree is a degree is awarded after a 2 year course study.
  • The 2 year course study consists of learning 3-D animation, Modeling, C++ programming and Map design.

Salary

Salary

Computer game designers make an alright amount of money. Their salary could range from roughly about $35,000 - $79,000 but the average salary for video game designers is around $50,000

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Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it. -Jane McGonigal

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