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game designer
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The Game Designer creates innovative games for entertainment or educational purposes. Their role is to conceptualize and develop characters, rules, settings and stories for new games. Their responsibilities are to make an intial prototype of the new game, pitch new game ideas to executives and clients, manage multiple teams and projects, use programming languages suitable for the game’s target platform, test and debug the game during the development process and after the game ships to players, check for broken features and functionality, inspect their code for errors as they write it, handle requests to fix performance and reliability issues, make updates that introduce new levels and char...

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Avg Pay: $46K
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Avg Pay: $86K
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  • Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Computer Science
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$32,594Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$32,594Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in English
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,429Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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Annual Pay Estimate for Game Designer and Other Important Info

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4.9 years
$66K
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3.07 years
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4
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