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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| digital-games-designer | Occupational skill for the role 'digital games designer' (also: digital game designer, digital games designers, video games designer, virtual games designer, computer games designer). Use when the user asks for typical digital games designer work such as: Review or evaluate competitive products, film, music, television, and other art forms to generate new game design ideas.; Provide test specifications to quality assurance staff.; Keep abreast of game design technology and techniques, industry trends, or audience interests, reactions, and needs by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences. |
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.
Core workflow
- Review or evaluate competitive products, film, music, television, and other art forms to generate new game design ideas.
- Provide test specifications to quality assurance staff.
- Keep abreast of game design technology and techniques, industry trends, or audience interests, reactions, and needs by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences.
- Create gameplay test plans for internal and external test groups.
- Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features.
- Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.
- Write or supervise the writing of game text and dialogue.
- Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- 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
Hot technologies
- MySQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Structured query language SQL
- C
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Microsoft Outlook
- Extensible markup language XML
- Git
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Adobe Illustrator
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d68ff35f-e34d-4e32-88ab-d6c06a6c25b9), ONET 30.3 (15-1255.01). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*