digital games designer
Digital games designers develop the layout, logic, concept and gameplay of a digital game. They focus on playfield design, specification writing, and entry of numeric properties that balance and tune the gameplay.
Also called: digital games designers, digital game designer, video games designer, computer games designer, virtual games designer
- 18
- essential skills
- 78
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2166
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- user interface designer7 skills in common
- database designer6 skills in common
- knowledge engineer6 skills in common
- artificial intelligence engineer5 skills in common
- data warehouse designer5 skills in common
- digital media designer5 skills in common
- ICT system architect5 skills in common
- software architect5 skills in common
Essential skills
18- analyse business requirements
- compose digital game story
- computer graphics
- create concept of digital game
- create digital game characters
- create software design
- define technical requirements
- design graphics
- design process
- digital game creation systems
- digital game genres
- formulate game rules
- manage online content
- specify digital game scenes
- systems development life-cycle
- task algorithmisation
- use markup languages
- web programming
Optional skills
78- 3D lighting
- 3D texturing
- ABAP
- Agile development
- AJAX
- animate 3D organic forms
- APL
- application usability
- apply 3D imaging techniques
- ASP.NET
- Assembly (computer programming)
- augmented reality
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- computer programming
- create 3D characters
- create 3D environments
- CryEngine
- DevOps
- Erlang
- estimate duration of work
- Frostbite (digital game creation systems)
- Gamemaker Studio
- GameSalad
- Groovy
- hardware platforms
- Haskell
- Havok Vision
- HeroEngine
- ICT performance analysis methods
- ICT security legislation
- id Tech
- incremental development
- interactive media
- iterative development
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- Lisp
- manage localisation
- MATLAB
- Microsoft Visual C++
- ML (computer programming)
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- operate 3D computer graphics software
- Pascal (computer programming)
- perform resource planning
- Perl
- PHP
- principles of animation
- Project Anarchy
- Prolog (computer programming)
- Prototyping development
- Python (computer programming)
- R
- RAGE (digital game creation systems)
- Rapid application development
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP R3
- SAS language
- Scala
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Shiva (digital game creation systems)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- software design methodologies
- software interaction design
- Source (digital game creation systems)
- Spiral development
- Swift (computer programming)
- TypeScript
- Unity (digital game creation systems)
- Unreal Engine
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- Waterfall development
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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