Video games are among the newest crazes for youngsters all over the world. The toy stores, gift shops, shopping malls, electronic stores and even book stores are now loaded with endless varieties of video games that have been designed and developed with newest technologies to provide thrill and excitement to the gamers at the maximum level. The special effects, true-to-life images, action moves, use of visuals and appropriate sounds create such a magic on the eyes and minds, that it seems impossible for gamers to leave the chair even for a second. These video games and computer games are indeed a major source of entertainment these days and apart from young kids, these high-end software programs are attracting people of all ages. The popularity of video games has reached such a level that people are even opting for creating video games. The increasing demand of high-end video games has lead to a huge requirement of skilled and efficient workforce and there are many companies that are recruiting people in large numbers for different video game jobs. If playing video games is your passion and you have the required educational qualification, you can opt for several video game jobs to earn your livelihood.



Surveys have found that playing video games has been the first step of the career of thousands of people who have taken making video games as their profession. Love for video games has been a very positive factor behind the success in video game jobs. But that is not all. To be good video game maker you need to possess skill and educational knowledge at the highest level.

Wide variety of video games is available in the market but the demand is maximum for sports, action and adventure games. Playing video games is really an enjoyable experience but making a game properly takes lots of efforts from people in the developing studio. The video game development studios generally comprise for departments, design, programming, artistic works and game play elements. Teams of highly skilled and efficient people work in each department and outputs of all the departments are assembled to manufacture a thrilling video game.

Video game jobs can be broadly classified in four sections:

?Game designers

?Artists

?Programmers

?Testers

Designers

Designing is one of the highly paid

as it plays the most important role behind the success of a good game. The duty of game designers includes writing concept of games, game play elements and character interactions. It is actually the game designers who plan the video games, which include making rules of playing, deciding missions and creating themes. Generally video game designing teams are supervised a by a lead designer who plan the concept of the game. For concentrating on smaller aspects of the game there are level designers who work in coordination with the artists. Besides there are writer-designers who write the manuals, create the game text and dialogues.

Artists

The visual effects and images on the screen add a lot to the thrill and excitements of the players. It is the job of the artist to create those graphics which move on the screen. Creating graphics for video games is a critical and lengthy task which starts from drawing sketches and storyboards for illustrating the designers? concepts. Once the sketches and illustrations are ready, the artists create artworks which include figures of creatures, icons, vehicles and various settings. Just like the designing team, the team of artist is also lead by a lead artist who creates the basic structures on which the team later works on. The teams of artists for video games include specialists like character artists, animators, texture artists and background modelers. Character artists and animators design the figures and creatures that are seen on the screen. The figures and creatures that are seen on the screen are very natural looking and the credit goes to the animators. It is their duty to create the natural looking movements of the characters and figures. They also work for creating the action sequences like jumping, running and talking.

Sound designers

There is a huge demand for sound designers in the video game industry as these are two very essential elements of a good game. It is the sound designers who compose the sounds and music that are used in games. They work in close coordination with the game designers as the sounds and music need to be matched with the sequences of actions. Besides, it is for the efforts of the sound that players enjoy exciting sound effects while playing video games on the television or computer.

Programmers

The video games that we play in computers are basically softwares and people who create these software s are known as game programmers. They write the video game softwares and put ideas, music and arts into it and thus a video game gets ready to play. The designers describe their ideas and the programmers translate them into critical mathematical equations. While playing games, we see cars running on streets, people running, walking and jumping. Speed of their motion changes according to the need of the player. It is the duty of the game programmers to control the speed of the objects.

Game testers

Before sending a video game to the store for sell it is very much essential to make sure that is error free. It is the duty of the game testers to find out errors that may remain while designing or programming a video game. They play all parts of a video game to make sure that it has been properly created. And when they give their green signals, a vide game is ready for sale and play.