What is a video game designer?

Tyler Snyder, Staff Writer

Being a video game designer requires you to ensure the games you create are accessible, balanced and entertaining for the target audience. Making video games can be complicated, but the result should be easy to engage with and quickly immerse you in its challenges. Sounds interesting right? Well it is! Video game designers get to design the content and rules of the game. They try to make their game the most enjoyable, re-playable, and an overall fun experience for the consumers. They are usually in control of and manage the entire project. The art, animation, audio and user interface design. There can be script writing, creating systems of economy within the product itself, the wide variety of potential social components and more. What kind of skills do you need to posses to be a video game designer? The position of video game designer is similar to the role in Hollywood of director. You get to write and control the script of the game, and bring the vision you have to life.

Communication and analytical skills are needed to work not only with all the different employees, but also, the community. The people playing your game will be the deciding factor. Whether you listen to the people and change to fit their needs is what makes you a successful video game designer or not. It also brings in more consumers. Its basic business. If people love your product, the more it will sell. Video game designers on average earn $70,750 per year.