What Is The Career Path By Doing Game Designing Courses?

Last updated Sep 9, 2021

The commercial birth of the gaming industry took place in 1950. Games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros, etc. have been reigning in people’s hearts for a long. The craze for video games led to the development of the gaming industry -hardware as well as the software side of the business. Companies like Nintendo, Attari, Microsoft, Sony, etc. not only developed games (software) but also launched gaming consoles like Xbox, Play station, etc.

Modern technology gave birth to smartphones and better internet capabilities, which further revolutionized the gaming industry. Besides the new games like Pubg, Candy Crush, Angry Birds, etc., old games also found favour with the Millennials. These games came with improved graphics and real-life-like situations. With virtual reality, games have become an extension of gamers.

With so much excitement, the industry is generating, people are seeking ways to be a part of the industry. To address this inquisitiveness, let’s first understand, what this industry entails?

Game Designing:

Visualizing, planning, and designing game architecture is called game designing. Game designers work with a team of professionals who look at the conceptual and technological aspects besides the budgetary requirements. The team is involved with designing levels, puzzles, characters, storyline, animation, etc. The team also conducts a feasibility study of the concept vis-a-vis psychology as well as the taste of the target audience and suggests changes to ensure that audience gets hooked on the games.

Furthermore, they need to ensure that the games must be easily expandable as per the evolving technology including augmented reality and AI. Besides this, they are also responsible to make sure that the game runs on various platforms seamlessly.

Scope in Game Designing:

Online game’s global market size is expected to reach US$122.05 billion in 2025 from US$37.65 billion in 2019.
In India, the online gaming industry has grown to US$1.027 billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 18.6% and by the year 2023, it is estimated to reach US$2 billion (in terms of rake fee earned).
The total Indian gaming market is expected to reach US$3.91 billion in 2025
As per KPMG, in the casual mobile gaming sub-segment, India had the highest game downloads in the world (excluding China) in 2020 (Q1-Q3 2020) to the tune of 7.3 billion.
As per the survey by ad-tech firm InMobi, during the lockdown in a pandemic, approximately 45 percent of India’s mobile users started playing games on their smartphones. Even the per day time spent on gaming apps went up by 40%

Thus unparallel opportunities for those who opt for game designing courses and that too at such a time when there is so much economic chaos.

On opting for game designing courses, the following are a few of the various opportunities that exist in the market:

Game Developer: He is involved with the creation and production of games-from conceptual level to a finished product.
Game Animator: He is an important cog in the wheel since he uses 2D and 3D techniques along with his creativity and visualization to bring to life characters and models within the limits of the game’s framework.
Game Audio Engineer: Audio engineers are instrumental in taking the gaming experience to a different level basis the use of appropriate sound effects.
Game Designer: He ideates on the concepts, builds levels, puzzles, characters, prototypes, and develops the game mechanics.
VFX artist: He uses digitally-generated imagery to bring to life creatures, crowds, and other special effects. He is an expert in object and lighting manipulation. For example, he can make spaceships, superheroes, aliens, outer space dragons, etc. look real
Game Programmer: Appropriate programming language such as HTML, Flash, PHP, etc. make sure that games run on different platforms and this pertains to a game programmer.
Game Marketer/PR: His duty is to create interest and ensure a large audience for the game.
QA Game Tester: He ensures that all bugs, mistakes in the game are identified and are fixed before the game is opened to the public.