What's Your Future Career? Video Game Designer?

Video Game Designers use computers to combine text, sound, animation, graphics, and video to create multimedia video games for all ages. The Video

Game Designer team made up of programmers, artists, designers, and musicians may spend years to make a new video game, and also spend millions of

dollars taking that game from the initial concept to a packaged product on a store shelf.

The education required to become a Video Game Designers varies. Employers would like to see the following, college education in computer science,

computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Video Game designers should also have an understanding of computer-aided design, computer graphics,

or art. Other skills and abilities necessary are creativity, vision, technical and analytical skills, and creative problem solving. It is also important to know what has

been successful and popular in the past so many computer programmers have also logged many hours playing games and have a love for games.

On average a Video Game Designer with little experience can make from $28,000 a year to $55,000 a year. But with more experience a Video Game

Designer can make from $67,000 a year to $98,000 a year. The video and computer industry was one of the fastest growing industries in 1998. The IDSA

reports that the interactive entertainment industry employs at lest 80,000 workers in the US alone.