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The Video Game Designer Career – Why Its Not Easy!

If you’re looking to be a video game designer, then you have to realize that there is much work involved. You won’t simply be thinking up game ideas and having everyone else around you make it a reality — it’s not that simple of a job.

A video game designer career requires a person to be well educated in the field of game design. This means that not only will you need a high-school degree, but you’ll also need a college (or technical school) degree as well. This may not be a problem for some, but for others (such as hardcore gamers), its a rather large barrier.

It’s not that gamers are stupid — it’s just that they are more in-tune with playing games than they are with designing them. In light of that fact, if you’re a gamer, a video game designer career might not be your best option; at first anyway. Instead, what you may want to consider is a career in professional video game testing.

Unlike a video game designer, a game tester gets a lot of hand-on experience with WORKING video games. Rather than using tools, design software, and pictures to create/improve the game, a video game tester will actually be playing the video game and helping to make it better for fellow players.

Believe it or not, a career as a video game tester is a great stepping stone for someone that wants to begin a video game designer career in the future. Why is that? Because it gives the person some vital first-hand experience of the numerous game development stages. Aside from just testing games, you will be interacting with other individuals whom make the gaming world go-round; programmers, testers, designers, graphics artists, sound engineers, software developers, you name it. Each one of these people contributes and adds something different to a video game; so by getting to know them, you get a better understanding of how everything works.

The most obvious reason of why to start a career in game testing first is because it’s easier. Unlike a career in game designing, no education is required to test video games. Not only that, but you can get started with professional game testing in just a few weeks to a few months. Game testing is easier, it’s faster, and it’s the perfect launching point for you to start a video game designer career!

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