Profession 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.

Personality Type

• Artistic / Enterprising

Knowledge

• Task algorithmisation

  The techniques to convert unstructured descriptions of a process into step-by-step sequence of actions of a finite number of steps.

• Digital game creation systems

  The integrated development environments and specialised design tools, designed for the rapid iteration of user-derived computer games.

• Systems development life-cycle

  The sequence of steps, such as planning, creating, testing and deploying and the models for the development and life-cycle management of a system.

• Web programming

  The programming paradigm that is based on combining markup (which adds context and structure to text) and other web programming code, such as AJAX, javascript and PHP, in order to carry out appropriate actions and visualise the content.

• Digital game genres

  The classification of video games based on their interaction with the game media, such as simulation games, strategy games, adventure games and arcade games.

Skills

• Create digital game characters

  Develop a typology of characters for digital games and identify their exact role in the gameplay and the narrative.

• Design process

  Identify the workflow and resource requirements for a particular process, using a variety of tools such as process simulation software, flowcharting and scale models.

• Manage online content

  Ensure the website content is up to date, organised, attractive and meets the target audience needs, the requirements of the company and international standards by checking the links, setting the publishing time framework and order.

• Design graphics

  Apply a variety of visual techniques in order to design graphic material. Combine graphical elements to communicate concepts and ideas.

• Specify digital game scenes

  Describe scenes of digital games by communicating and cooperating with artistic crew, designers and artists in order to define the scope of the game's virtual environments.

• Define technical requirements

  Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.

• Analyse business requirements

  Study clients' needs and expectations for a product or service in order to identify and resolve inconsistencies and possible disagreements of involved stakeholders.

• Compose digital game story

  Create a digital game story by writing out a detailed plot and storyboard with descriptions and gameplay objectives.

• Create concept of digital game

  Develop and communicate every aspect of overall game vision. Communicate and collaborate with technical crew, artistic and design teams to implement the game vision.

• Use markup languages

  Utilise computer languages that are syntactically distinguishable from the text to add annotations to a document, specify layout and process types of documents such as HTML.

• Create software design

  Transpose a series of requirements into a clear and organised software design.

• Formulate game rules

  Compose a series of rules as to how to play a game.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB