Learning Objectives & Matches
Create platform-agnostic digital games using a game engine, optimizing for user experience across devices.
Present new game design concepts to management and technical colleagues, including artists, animators, and programmers.
Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.
Document all aspects of formal game design, using mock-up screenshots, sample menu layouts, gameplay flowcharts, and other graphical devices.
Optimize digital assets, such as text, graphics, or multimedia assets, for search engine optimization (SEO) or for display and usability on internet-connected devices.
Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design.
Create gameplay prototypes for presentation to creative and technical staff and management.
Review or evaluate competitive products, film, music, television, and other art forms to generate new game design ideas.
Design computers and the software that runs them.
Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features.
Apply computational thinking, programming fundamentals, and problem-solving to address challenges in game development.
Present new game design concepts to management and technical colleagues, including artists, animators, and programmers.
Develop computational methods for solving problems that occur in areas of science and engineering or that come from applications in business or industry.
Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.
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.
Review or evaluate competitive products, film, music, television, and other art forms to generate new game design ideas.
Analyze problems to develop solutions involving computer hardware and software.
Prepare and revise initial game sketches using two- and three-dimensional graphical design software.
Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design.
Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.