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digital games designer

Digital games designers develop the layout, logic, concept and gameplay of a digital game.

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Description

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.

Theoretical Knowledge
ESSENTIALTheoretical knowledge required
digital game creation systemscomputer graphicsweb programmingsystems development life-cycledigital game genrestask algorithmisation
OPTIONALAdjacent knowledge that strengthens fit
ML (computer programming)C#PerlGroovyHeroEngineSpiral developmentABAPprinciples of animationTypeScriptPHPCryEngineScalaAssembly (computer programming)Waterfall developmentSAP R3Objective-CVBScriptJava (computer programming)Shiva (digital game creation systems)Unreal Engineaugmented realityHavok VisionCOBOLcomputer programmingMicrosoft Visual C++ICT security legislationCoffeeScriptAPLFrostbite (digital game creation systems)AJAXCommon Lispinteractive mediasoftware design methodologiesScratch (computer programming)LispVisual BasicRAGE (digital game creation systems)Source (digital game creation systems)DevOpssoftware interaction designProlog (computer programming)Unity (digital game creation systems)RPrototyping developmentJavaScriptErlangSAS languageid TechSwift (computer programming)GameSaladRapid application developmentASP.NETiterative development3D lightingMATLABAgile development3D texturingProject Anarchyapplication usabilityRuby (computer programming)C++HaskellICT performance analysis methodsSmalltalk (computer programming)Pascal (computer programming)hardware platformsincremental developmentOpenEdge Advanced Business LanguagePython (computer programming)Gamemaker Studio
Practical Skills
ESSENTIALApplied skills & competences
create digital game charactersmanage online contentcompose digital game storyformulate game rulesdesign processdesign graphicscreate concept of digital gameanalyse business requirementsdefine technical requirementsspecify digital game scenesuse markup languagescreate software design
OPTIONALOptional competences
create 3D environmentscreate 3D charactersmanage localisationperform resource planningapply 3D imaging techniquesanimate 3D organic formsoperate 3D computer graphics softwareestimate duration of work

GLOBAL RESOURCE

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SKILLS OVERVIEW

96 total
18 essential · 78 optional

Data Source: Unified Global Standards (ISCED, ISCO, O*NET, ESCO)

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