The person who write a short concept of a game, then sends it in to a publisher, if it gets accepted the game designer will write a very detailed design document that details every single thing about the game; script, items, characters, location of every single Non-Player Character (NPC), item, building, etc. Very detailed, because a team of graphic designers and programmers is going to build you game from that document while you start writing another game design document.
Basically the same thing as a movie director, they make sure everything is running smoothly and sticking to the main storyline, gameplay idea, and overall concept. In essence, they act as the foreman would on a cronstruction site.
Shigeru Miyamato is the most praised, video game designer of all times. He holds stock in the biggest franchise and is credited with dipping his hands in a majority of the most successful and praised games.
Sales of video games are almost equal to movie sales
Millions and millions.
Hideo Kojima (born August 24, 1963 in Setagaya) is a Japanese video game director, producer and designer. Kojima has designed many successful video games, most notably those of the Metal Gear series.
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There are 8 different career positions in the video game industry. This includes the following: video game designer, video game programmer, animator, audio engineer, writer, translator, video game tester, and most importantly, technical support specialist.
FIFA 14 was the most successful EA Sports video game ever made, selling more than 1.23 million copies in there first few days.
It depends on what kind of video games you are designing. Most of the time yes.
The hourly salary of a video game designer varies depending on experience, location, education, and the type of sector in which the designer is working. The lowest ten percent of video game designers make on average $15 an hour. Top earners can command around $43 an hour.
Assuming you mean "Education" and you are wondering, were to get it. Most colleges offer "Computer Science & Math" which is the programming part of video game developing, and "Animation & Arts" which is the 3D modeling part of video game developing.
The most successful game launch is the New Super Mario Bros. Wii which sold 222million on its release day The second most successful is Pokemon Platinum on DS whichsold 193million it's release day
Developers actually program the game and make the models, textures, etc. They are like the construction workers on a building.Publishers market the game and finance the development. They also arrange the manufacture of the disc, the package, etc. They are like the business men who are financing the project.
Sony Computer Entertainment with a Revenue of $13.4 Billion.
pokemon, street fighter, call of duty and grand theft auto
American James McGee is a video game designer and is probably most famous for the Video Games "Wolfenstein 3D", "Doom", "Doom II", "Quake II", and "American McGee's Alice".