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.
Professionals 96 skills on file 12 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 68%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- user interface designer 56% covered · difficulty 59
- software architect 46% covered · difficulty 65.9
- digital games developer 45% covered · difficulty 66
- embedded system designer 45% covered · difficulty 65.5
- ICT system architect 44% covered · difficulty 68.7
- computer science lecturer 42% covered · difficulty 73.9
- knowledge engineer 42% covered · difficulty 70.3
- software tester 41% covered · difficulty 67.8
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How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a digital games designer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.