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'Bored' Games, No Way! A Game Design Career is Full of Fun

by Martin David
martin.david@hqpublications.com
Technology School Columnist

You love technology and you love computers, but most of all you love chasing little green men across your ultra high-resolution monitor screen. You are the perfect candidate for a video game design career.

Are You a Good Fit?

Most of the people working in this 60 Billion dollar industry were drawn to their video game jobs by their personal passion for playing and analyzing video games. Many avid video game players are surprised when they start attending game design schools to find out how seriously the professional world takes the world of games.


They are also surprised to find out that, even in economic hard times, there are thousands of video game jobs available. In fact, some players enter the video game industry when they are hired in one of the many jobs available for video game testers.

They then realize the enjoyable and profitable game design career that awaits them when they learn how to program video games. It’s a short step from that realization to the decision to find a good game design school and enter a full time game design career.

A Variety of Paths in the Game of Seeking Jobs

Once you have your game design degree, the door to a game design career will be wide open. There are many other video game jobs available in addition to game designers. There are jobs for video game testers, video game programmers, game character creators, animators, graphics artists and storyboard writers.


The field is growing all the time as more and more companies enter the video game market. The video game design career will be around for a long time and you can be sure that it is a career in which you will never be bored. New technologies give birth to new game possibilities and the future is as wide as your imagination.

About the Author

Martin A. David consults as a Senior Technical Writer for a number of Silicon Valley firms. He is also a translator, specializing in Danish, French and Spanish literary works. He has written numerous feature articles for publications including the Los Angeles Times. He has also published a novel, and a non-fiction book in the area of dance. Martin earned his B.A. in Liberal Arts from Brooklyn College in his native New York. He currently chairs the Santa Clara Cultural Advisory Commission in Santa Clara, California.