Game Designer
Create and produce computer or video games including concepts, scenarios, characters and game play.
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- What's it like to be a Game Designer?
- How to become a Game Designer
- Latest Game Designer jobs
- Top skills and experience for Game Designers
- Game Designer role reviews
What's it like to be a Game Designer?
Games Designers invent, develop, create and produce computer or video games. Game Designers may work alongside Animators, Game Developers and Producers.
Tasks and duties
- Work in games development teams to make creative decisions about games’ concepts, interfaces, maps, scenarios, characters, storylines and game play.
- Undertake computer-generated design and apply design, narrative imaging, modelling and animation to game environments.
- Developing user interface concepts, including menus and controls, and work to improve existing game
How to become a Game Designer
To work as a Game Designer in Australia, you usually need a qualification in digital and interactive games, computer games design, animation or digital media technologies. It is also possible to become a game designer through a traineeship, but whichever career path is taken work experience and a portfolio of work is desirable from an employer’s perspective.
- Undertake a qualification in the area of game design. This is commonly a Certificate IV in Information Technology (Gaming Development) (ICT40120) or a Diploma of Information Technology (ICT50220).
- Gain work experience in the field and build a portfolio of work.
- Game Designers wanting to further their career may wish to undertake degree-level qualifications such as a Bachelor of Games Design to work towards becoming a Lead Game Designer.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Game Designer employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Game Design
Gaming
Mathematics
Player Experience
C++ Programming
Mechanics
Games Development
Programming Skills
Statistics
Simulations
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Latest Game Designer reviews
Oct 2024
Too tired and busy.
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationScience & Technology
The good thingsIf you are full of energy and interested in video game, it will be a good job. But you are hard to have yourself time.
The challengesIt is too tired and it made me lose my life.
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Oct 2018
Game design is a great job somewhere else
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeI'm self-employed
The good thingsThe gaming industry is a fun and amazing place to work, lots of different people and the projects can be amazing to work on.
The challengesIn Perth the roles are volunteery at the most, their is not work here for game designers unless you have self funding.
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