Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a digital games designer can go next

12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a digital games designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Digital games designers develop the layout, logic, concept and gameplay of a digital game. They focus on playfield design, specification writing, and entry of numeric properties that balance and tune the gameplay.

Also known as digital game designer, digital games designers, video games designer, virtual games designer, computer games designer.

Professionals 96 skills on file 12 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
numerical tool and process co… 68% covered computer-aided design operator 64% covered 3D modeller 63% covered user interface designer 56% covered 3D animator 55% covered software architect 46% covered digital games designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from digital games designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a digital games designer already covers. All 12 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A digital games designer needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • create digital game characters communication, collaboration and creativity
  • specify digital game scenes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • compose digital game story communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create concept of digital game communication, collaboration and creativity
  • digital game creation systems arts and humanities
  • formulate game rules management skills
  • digital game genres arts and humanities
  • manage online content working with computers
  • task algorithmisation information and communication technologies (icts)
  • create software design communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a digital games designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Digital games designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a digital games designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.