Video Game Designer Job Outlook 2016

Knowledge

These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.

Fine arts

79% Skill level

Compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Communications and media

77% Skill level

Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.
Technical design

70% Skill level

Design techniques, tools, and principles used to make detailed technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Computers and electronics

69% Skill level

Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
English language

56% Skill level

English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Customer and personal service

49% Skill level

Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.
Administration and management

40% Skill level

Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.
Sales and marketing

35% Skill level

Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.
Production and processing

33% Skill level

Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.
Education and training

33% Skill level

Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Personnel and human resources

30% Skill level

Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.
Mathematics

26% Skill level

Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.
Psychology

21% Skill level

Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.
Engineering and technology

20% Skill level

Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.
Sociology and anthropology

19% Skill level

Group behaviour and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.
Telecommunications

18% Skill level

Transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.
Economics and accounting

15% Skill level

Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.
Law and government

15% Skill level

How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.

Skills

Skills can be improved through training or experience.

Active listening

55% Skill level

Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
Reading comprehension

55% Skill level

Reading work related information.
Coordination with others

54% Skill level

Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.
Critical thinking

52% Skill level

Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
Talking to others.
Active learning

48% Skill level

Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.
Complex problem solving

46% Skill level

Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Monitoring

46% Skill level

Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.
Time management

46% Skill level

Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.
Writing things for co-workers or customers.
Judgment and decision making

43% Skill level

Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.
Instructing

43% Skill level

Teaching people how to do something.
Negotiation

43% Skill level

Bringing people together and trying to sort out their differences.
Persuasion

43% Skill level

Talking people into changing their minds or their behaviour.
Learning strategies

41% Skill level

Figuring out the best way to teach or learn something new.
Serving others

41% Skill level

Looking for ways to help people.
Social perceptiveness

41% Skill level

Understanding why people react the way they do.
Systems analysis

41% Skill level

Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.
Systems evaluation

41% Skill level

Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Management of personnel resources

39% Skill level

Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.

Abilities

Workers use these physical and mental abilities.

Oral comprehension

59% Skill level

Listen to and understand what people say.
Near vision

57% Skill level

See details that are up-close (within a few feet).
Oral expression

57% Skill level

Communicate by speaking.
Visualization

54% Skill level

Imagine how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
Brainstorming

54% Skill level

Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.
Originality

54% Skill level

Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.
Written comprehension

52% Skill level

Read and understand written information.
Categorising

52% Skill level

Come up with different ways of grouping things.
Colour discrimination

52% Skill level

Notice differences between colours, including shades of colour and brightness.
Deductive reasoning

52% Skill level

Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.
Written expression

52% Skill level

Write in a way that people can understand.
Inductive reasoning

50% Skill level

Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.
Problem spotting

50% Skill level

Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.
Sorting or ordering

50% Skill level

Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Selective attention

46% Skill level

Pay attention to something without being distracted.
Far vision

45% Skill level

See details that are far away.
Speech clarity

43% Skill level

Speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech recognition

43% Skill level

Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Flexibility of closure

41% Skill level

See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.
Finger dexterity

39% Skill level

Put together small parts with your fingers.

Activities

These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.

Thinking creatively

84% Skill level

Using your own ideas for developing, designing, or creating something new.
Keeping your knowledge up-to-date

81% Skill level

Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.
Working with computers

78% Skill level

Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Communicating with the public

71% Skill level

Giving information to the public, business or government by telephone, in writing, or in person.
Collecting and organising information

69% Skill level

Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.
Making decisions and solving problems

69% Skill level

Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.
Communicating within a team

68% Skill level

Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.
Planning and prioritising work

66% Skill level

Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.
Building good relationships

64% Skill level

Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.
Making sense of information and ideas

60% Skill level

Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.
Monitoring people, processes and things

59% Skill level

Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.
Researching and investigating

57% Skill level

Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.
Scheduling work and activities

57% Skill level

Working out the timing of events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Giving expert advice

55% Skill level

Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups.
Coming up with systems and processes

55% Skill level

Deciding on goals and figuring out what you need to do to achieve them.
Assessing and evaluating things

55% Skill level

Working out the value, importance, or quality of things, services or people.
Coaching and developing others

55% Skill level

Working out the needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or helping them to improve.
Training and teaching others

55% Skill level

Understanding the needs of others, developing training programs, and teaching or instructing.
Coordinating the work of a team

55% Skill level

Getting members of a group to work together to finish a task.
Looking for changes over time

53% Skill level

Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.

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The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 27-1014.00 - Multimedia Artists and Animators .