Tech & Product

Video Game Designer

Build worlds people want to live in

€30k-€90k High demand

Game designers create the rules, systems, levels and experiences that make games engaging - collaborating with programmers, artists and writers to ship games that millions of people choose to play.

1Playtesting a level and watching someone get stuck in a place you thought was obvious

2Balancing a combat system until it feels fair and fun simultaneously

3Pitching a mechanic idea in a design meeting and defending it

4Writing a game design document that other teams can actually build from

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Play a game critically — analyse every design decision.

Game mechanics designLevel designPlaytesting & iterationGDD writing

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Skills to build

Game mechanics design

Level design

Playtesting & iteration

GDD writing

Unity or Unreal basics

Systems thinking

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What the work is really like

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Skill gap

6-month roadmap

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