Overview
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.
- Devise missions, challenges, or puzzles to be encountered in game play.
- Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
Education
- bachelor's degree
- high school diploma/GED
Salary
Annual 10th percentile $48,210
Annual median $98,540
Annual 90th percentile $176,490
Knowledge
Engineering and Technology
- design
- computers and electronics
Communications
- multimedia
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- psychology
Arts and Humanities
- English language
Skills
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
Personality
Artistic
People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Cooperation
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Achievement/Effort
- Persistence
Abilities
Verbal
- read and understand what is written
- communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
- come up with lots of ideas
- create new and original ideas
Attention
- pay attention to something without being distracted