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Concept / Storyboard Artists flesh out the game with sketches and paintings of characters, levels, vehicles, and other elements in a game. This will give an early feel for the game. Character artists as well as level designers much of the time fill this role.

Character Artists & Animators work with 3D programs such as Maya or 3DS Max to produce the characters and objects that make up the video games.

Level Designers are given sections or levels of the game, creating the environments that the player will interact in. They will have a huge impact on whether the game will have the look and feel of what the design team had envisioned.

Texture Artists give the skins to levels and characters. They have to make sure the textures are properly mapped onto the 3D objects and backgrounds in a convincing and seamless way.

Programmers work on the video game engine, AI, and anything pretty much that will make the game run. C++ is the programming language of choice for most game programming.

Sound / Audio: There will be people working on the sound effects of the game, as well as the music that often is playing in the background.

Professional Testers are often employed, another video game career. These people put in long hours to find bugs and other potential problems.

Artificial Intelligence today it is almost impossible to write professional style games without using at least some aspects of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a useful tool to use to help to create characters that have a choice of responses to games player's actions, but have to be able to act in a fairly unpredictable fashion.

Motion Capture Technology Motion capture technology is a good example of how digital techniques are being applied to the video game (and related) industries to allow more convincing visualizations of imaginary or composite images.

A Closer Look at the Video Game Sound Designer

Video Games and Sound Design
A rush in new technology in recent years has revolutionized the sound recording industry, as well as the use of sound design in fields such as video game design. Opportunities to use new sound technologies are opening up in this industry, and there is a great demand for individuals with training in sound design to fill these positions. If you love video games and are also interested in sound technology, than you may want to pursue a career in the exciting and growing field of sound design for video games.

Training
Because sound design is such a new discipline, learning how to use new technology equipment used to have to be learned on-the-job. Now there are sound design courses and degree programs available that can provide you with the practical and theoretical background in sound design that you will need for success in video game industry. The curriculum of most sound design programs is divided between lectures and demonstrations, and practical, hands-on training done at audio engineering and sound production studios. This extensive hands-on experience will allow you to become proficient at operating and creatively using a wide variety of sound recording equipment. Courses in sound design programs also usually include training in music, and in the art of technology and recording, as well as in principles of sound, digital recording, sound mixing, effects, and sequencing.

Career Opportunities
Because of the wide range of technical aspects involved in sound technology, you will develop a broad understanding of sound design, and sound recording that will enable you pursue a wide variety of professions including a career as a sound designer in the cutting edge industry of video game design.




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