Employment for Video Game Designs

If you are thinking about your career and enjoy playing video games you may want to seriously consider a degree in video game design. You can find employment by designing or playing video games. Here are some employment opportunities with a video game degree.

1) Video Game Programmer

They write the code for video games to work properly. It is a hard job because video game programming often entails writing complicated functions and algorithms that is usually more difficult to create than the usuall software written for business applications.

Video game programming may not be the right track for some looking for emloyment in video game design. but if you are to write code and program, why not do it for video games?

2) Video Game Tester

A job as a video game tester you would be paid for playing video games. If you are a video game junkie wouldn't that be great employment for video game designs. What you would be doing is playing the game and look for things that don't work properly or hard to understand because it seems it doesnt add value to the game. You would also try and crash the game to see if you could make things go wrong.

3) Video Game Animator

Animators are the ones who bring the game to life by designing the movement of the video game characters. You work hand in hand with the programmer to accomplish this task. The bottom line is they are responsible for the animation and graphics so if you are somewhat of an artist with imagination this is a great opportunity in employment for video game designs.

4) Sound Designer

Sound designers create music and the sound effects of video games.

If you have an interest in both music and sound, understand and know how to work recording equipment and be familiar with different types of music and sound effects this is another way in employment for video game designs.

5) Game Designer

Video game designers create the feel or experience of the video game that make it fun and exciting to play.

Video game designers should have an interest in video games and some artistic and programming skills.