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Title: The Crazy Careers of Video Game Designers
Author: Arie Kaplan
Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-26-17
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
You might think that working in the video game industry is all fun and, well, games. Jobs like combat designer and animator sound pretty exciting. But do you know what it really takes to do one of these jobs? Do you have the skills? The knowledge? Are you ready to work hard? Game designers create the images, sounds, and action that gamers enjoy. Find out if you can handle a job in this fast-paced industry.
Members Reviews:
Very basic
I bought âThe Crazy Careers of Video Game Designersâ for my teenage daughter because she is interested in becoming a video game writer and I wanted to inspire her to go after her dream, while also letting her know whatâs involved in getting there.
It does tell you the jobs that are needed to design and build a video game, itâs just that the descriptions are VERY brief and at 32 pages (including a page each for the title page, TOC, further reading, index, and photo acknowledgments), I consider it to be more like a pamphlet than a book.
I was expecting something with a little more substance, rather than a fleeting overview.
... these books for our school library and the kids love them.
I bought these books for our school library and the kids love them.
This is a fun and fascinating look at careers in the video game world that will amaze young readers ...
Having a career in the field of video game design would be the way to go and would be one way to justify all those gaming hours. Wait, it's not all that easy and there are definitely a lot of career possibilities to consider and jobs to take a close look at. There are "indie [independent] game companies," small companies or people who design video games from A to Z, but for the most part, it takes a lot of people to create just one game. If you seriously want a career in the industry it will "require lots of studying, reading, and work." Time to put down that controller for a while and hit the books.
The game designer is the central person in the creation of a game. He or she "ensures everyone is doing the game properly." If even one thing is out of sync the flow of the game will be interrupted. The game designer's job all boils down to one thing and that's to "make sure the game is fun for players." Would you be a gamer if the games were boring? Probably not. A game designer isn't the only person career option in the field. There's the level designer, sound designer, environment artist, combat designer, game writer, programmer, character artist, rigger, animator, and last, but not least, the QA.
Throughout this book, you'll learn all about the people who have chosen these particular career paths. You can probably easily figure out what artists, game writers, programmers, and animators do, but might be clueless about some of the others. A level designer "decides where and when the game takes place" for starters, but also does things such as making those levels we are all familiar with. Have you ever tried to "beat each level" only to have something like a "fire-breathing dragon" defeat you? In this book, you'll take a look at all the "crazy careers" in the world of video games. Still don't know what a QA is? You will once you've finished this book!
This is a fun and fascinating look at careers in the video game world that will amaze young readers.
