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Video Game Designers

Job Information

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.

Information

  • Employment is projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations and add 286,600 new jobs over the 2008-18 decade.
  • Excellent job prospects are expected.
  • Workers can enter this field with many different levels of formal education, but relevant computer skills are always needed.

Statistics

Personality I'm a problem solver
Salary $79,930/yr ($39.97/hr)
Job Outlook Average
Education Bachelors