Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Engineering(Game Desing)


What is a game designer? It isn't necessarily a programmer. And it isn't necessarily an artist. A game designer is an accomplished writer who communicates clearly through the written word, charts, graphs, and sketches to set forth the vision for a game in complete detail so that the programmers and artists will have their work clearly cut out for them. A game designer is also someone who is very well-read, well-spoken, and understands how worlds work. Because his/her job is essentially to create fun worlds

How do you get to be a game designer? You get a college degree and you enter the working world. You learn how to be a good worker, a responsible employee, and a professional. You get a job at a game company. Any job for which you are suited—Customer Support, Associate Producer, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Production Coordinator, Mailroom Clerk... Any job. It is practically unheard of for a game applicant with no game industry experience (no matter what degree he holds or what college he went to) to be hired and given the title "game designer" right off the bat. First you have to have some sort of marketable job skill to get hired at a game company.

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