Occupation
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.
$104,000 medianBright outlookBachelor's typical
O*NET 31.0 · 15-1255.01
A typical week, in the words of people in the job
- 01Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.
- 02Devise missions, challenges, or puzzles to be encountered in game play.
- 03Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
- 04Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design.
- 05Conduct regular design reviews throughout the game development process.
- 06Develop and maintain design level documentation, including mechanics, guidelines, and mission outlines.
- 07Document all aspects of formal game design, using mock-up screenshots, sample menu layouts, gameplay flowcharts, and other graphical devices.
- 08Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features.
- 09Create and manage documentation, production schedules, prototyping goals, and communication plans in collaboration with production staff.
- 10Provide feedback to production staff regarding technical game qualities or adherence to original design.
- 11Create gameplay prototypes for presentation to creative and technical staff and management.
- 12Guide design discussions between development teams.
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What the posting will be called
Design DirectorDesignerGame DesignerWorld DesignerEnvironmental ArtistGame Design ConsultantGamemasterLevel Designer
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Knowledge the job leans on
DesignComputers and ElectronicsCommunications and MediaMathematicsPsychologyEnglish LanguageEngineering and TechnologySociology and Anthropology
Skills that carry over from service
ProgrammingJudgment and Decision MakingComplex Problem SolvingTime ManagementSystems AnalysisSystems EvaluationCoordinationPersuasion