Occupation Atlasdigital games designer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d68ff35f-e34d-4e32-88ab-d6c06a6c25b9
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.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
AIEArtistic · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic6.38
- I Investigative4.15
- E Enterprising3.92
- C Conventional3.85
- R Realistic2.77
- S Social2.30
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Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Video Game Designers (15-1255.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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 (78)
- 3D lighting
- 3D texturing
- ABAP
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Agile development
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- CryEngine
- DevOps
- Erlang
- Frostbite (digital game creation systems)
- GameSalad
- Gamemaker Studio
- Groovy
- Haskell
- Havok Vision
- HeroEngine
- ICT performance analysis methods
- ICT security legislation
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- Lisp
- MATLAB
- ML (computer programming)
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- PHP
- Pascal (computer programming)
- Perl
- 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)
- Source (digital game creation systems)
- Spiral development
- Swift (computer programming)
- TypeScript
- Unity (digital game creation systems)
- Unreal Engine
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- Waterfall development
- animate 3D organic forms
- application usability
- apply 3D imaging techniques
- augmented reality
- computer programming
- create 3D characters
- create 3D environments
- estimate duration of work
- hardware platforms
- id Tech
- incremental development
- interactive media
- iterative development
- manage localisation
- operate 3D computer graphics software
- perform resource planning
- principles of animation
- software design methodologies
- software interaction design
O*NET equivalents
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