Video Game Designers

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

Engineering and Technology

• design
• computers and electronics

Communications

• multimedia

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
• psychology

Arts and Humanities

• English language

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

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

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