Video Game Creating Research Paper

Video Game Creating, a technical job that specializes in creating video games, is a career I wish to pursue for animating, illustrating, and gaming. I have wanted to be in this career since I was around 9 or 10 years old. What interested me was when I was used to playing games with a set-map. A set-map is a map where the character can only go two ways, forward or backwards. I played a free-map game, a game where the player chooses the quest and/or path/place they want to go, and I was curious as to how the map was created. Upon wanting to figure that out, I realized that it will be hard to find a job in this field because more people are interested and that means less jobs. I want the job/ a job because I love video games and I want to create some for others to enjoy.
Video Game Creating is an occupation where people can make games.
It is mostly inside (or indoors) and a team operated industry. The jobs can range from artists to effects programmers. The artist draws or creates the characters, maps, and scenes, whereas effect programmers add sound effects like storms, explosions, and visual effects like gore, and how some things move and/or look. There are many more occupations in the Video Game Creating industry too. Most involve people working together to piece things in the game together. There are some attractive features for Video Game Creators, too. If someone loves technology and computers, then that is an attractive feature. Most video game creators find the animations an attractive feature. Animating, creating, puzzling together, and testing games are also some attractive features for some people. Video Game Creating is also one of the very few businesses or industries that require group work on a major project. There are many attractive features, they are just different opinions from people about what is and what is not included in the attractive features
list. With there being attractive features, there are also some negative features too. Some may think that working together is a hassle and a negative features, others may not. Being indoors the entire time at work could be a negative aspect as well. It all comes down to individual opinions. Everyone has different opinions, therefore what could be negative and what could be positive are always different on nearly everything. Whether being indoors, working with people, or sitting at a computer all day; anything could be negative. There are also high school classes that can help teens to get closer to this career. Art and Computer Programming are going to be involved as well as Creative Writing, Drawing and Painting, and Graphic Designs. There are even websites students’ can use to help them learn material that would help in this career. Some workplaces might require a high school diploma while others may requires employees to have a collage degree of sorts. This career require you have a High School Diploma or equivalent, and a degree in computer graphics or equivalent. Some qualifications for being a Video Game Creator are certain ages, certain skill, certain educational degree, and certain personal likes or interests. Workers have to at least have a high school diploma or equivalent, and they have to have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Graphics, that should put the minimum age guide line down and the minimum educational guideline also. With the personal likes and interests, the job requires employees have a good imagination. Having a good imagination can be fueled by the employee’s likes and interests. With skill, employees’ can use their skills to help their interests to create ideas and make them into games. Employers prefer an employee that is creative, happy, smart, and outgoing rather than an employee with a neutral, boring, and pale personality. Wages for this career are a little above minimum wage. Depending on who the person or employee works for will show if they get paid hourly or on a set salary. Most workers get paid on a set salary because they have a set schedule. Work is always available because more and more games are being created and the industry is constantly growing, although it may be a rather slow growth. With the industry growing, that means that employers are looking for more people to hire. Some companies pay more if there is severe weather and some employees are either stuck at home, in a shelter/car, or are stuck at work until it passes over. On the other hand, if business is slow then workers may get paid less. The median wage for this occupation is $82,660 (“Wages” 1). This job offers benefits as well. Employees may be able to get discounts on games, bonus pay for completed works, and/or even discounts on game consoles and computers. Employers in this career strongly approve of working at home so consoles and computers could be discounted. Some employers also give vacation days. Gaming industries allow vacations for ‘brainstorming’ and making ideas for more games. Getting benefits depends on how long and how well and/or hard the employee's work. Some employers have given workers medical benefits and health insurance benefits (“Video Game Programmer Job Benefits” 1). The chances of me getting a job in this career field are average to good I think. I might be able to get a character, map, or effects creator because of my time in photoshop class and my ability to draw, paint, sketch, and color. I could also be someone on the tech support team on the game for when people are experiencing problems. I can do that because of my computer Applications/keyboarding class. What also gives me a bigger chance is that I play a lot of video games and I’m closer to the ‘newer’ generations. There is an 8.5% growth rate for this occupation throughout Missouri (“Employment and Outlook” 1). This career will continue to grow in the future because more and more newer, better, and more advance gaming items and games are coming out, allowing gaming to advance and continue to grow. Some companies may end up making others go out of business ut there won’t be a day before retirement for the class of 2018 where there are no video games. In the future machines may take over that job or the government could make Video Games illegal like every other fun and non harming thing in the US. Video Game Creating and testing are growing industries. I would still like to pursue this career because I am still intrigued by how to create video games. The wages are good, along with the requirements, and the workplaces are safe. Since the industry is growing, I will have a better chance at getting a job in the future in this field. For me, there are very few cons to this type of job and more Pro’s. I am an indoors person and I prefer to work on computers rather than work with building or fixing things. The growth rate may not be above average, in fact it is rather low. Sitting for long periods, being at a computer most of the time, and having to teach other workers could be fun. Therefore, Video game creating is a career I wish to pursue.