Video Game Designer
What it means to be a video game designer...
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.
My top career options in this field...
- Interactive Multimedia Designer
- Computer Video Game Designer
- Video Game Developer
What they do that interests me...
- Create core game features including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
- Present new game design concepts to management and technical colleagues, including artists, animators, and programmers.
- Create and manage documentation, production schedules, prototyping goals, and communication plans in collaboration with production staff.
My possible feature as a video game designer...
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what is important video game designers...
People who work in this occupation generally prize
- achievement
- Independence
- working conditions
what video game designers need to know...
- Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Psychology - Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
what video game designers need to be able to do...
- programming
- active listening
- reading comprehension
- critical thinking
- complex problem solving
- judgement and decision making
- active learning