Jobs in Gaming industry

Understand organisational structures in the game industry

QA Tester

Test, tune and debug a game and suggest refinements that ensure its quality and play-ability, assuring quality in a game and finding all its flaws before it goes public.

Audio Engineer

Create the soundtrack for a game, including music, sound effects, character voices and spoken instructions.

Have to be able to compose music and to be able to create an atmosphere for a game. Good communication skills and needs to be creative. You also need to be good at working towards deadlines.

Animator

Responsible for the portrayal of movement and behaviour within a game.

An animator has to have knowledge of 2D and 3D animation techniques, also to be creative and have good communication skills.

Games Artist

Responsible for creating an online infrastructure for a game, and ensuring the stability and security of the web services.

Lead Artist

Responsible for the overall look of the game.

Creative Director

Responsible for the overall look and feel of the game.

Be able to inspire developers and designers to make high quality material and give them a good feel for the theme that they are making it for. You need to have a passion for games and be extremely creative.

DevOps Engineer

Solve problems for the developers and designers. Also creating and maintaining network systems for games with online components

Be able to use C++ and C as well as key network programming languages. Have good communication skills and also be very organised. Be able to work towards deadlines and come up with creative solutions for problems that may arise. 

Assistant Producer

Create and implement marketing campaigns to maximise the sales of games.

Good management and communication skills also have a good eye for detail.

Lead Programmer

Lead the programming team responsible for creating all the games computer codes.

Technical Artist

Acts as a bridge between the Artists and the programmers working on the game.

External Producer

External Producers ensure the succesful delivery of a game, while working externally from the game development team.

Be able to manage people, time and multiple projects. Have a passion for games and a clear understanding of the roles and requirements involved in the gaming industry.

Game Programmer

Game Programmers design and wite the computer code that runs and controls a game.

Game Designer

Game designers devise what a game consists of and how it plays, defining all the core elements.

Narrative Copyrighter

Writing dialogue and incidental copy for a game, fuses a knowledge of games and game design with writing talent to create a beautifully crafted interactive.

Level Editor

Define and create interactive architecture for a segment of a game, including the landscape and buildings.

Product Manager

Create and implement marketing campaigns to maximise the sales of games.

Project Manager

Ensure the successful delivery of a game.

Top Ten Games

Top Ten Games

1. NBA 2K17

NBA 2K17 is a basketball simulation game which allows you to play as some of the top NBA stars of today and of history. My personal favourite mode is My Career which allows you to create a player and pick what height what position and customise him to a great extent, they even have a feature where you can scan you face and make your basketball player look like you. You start as a rookie and work you way to become a better rating, then try to get into a team perfect for you if you have reached the top of the NBA you can also take your player to My Park which allows player to team up with other people online and play 5v5 4v4 3v3 2v2 and such. Through your journey a story is told of you and your friend in the NBA Justice Young (played by Micheal B Jordan) and how you create a dynamic duo called orange juice and dominate the NBA.

2. Battlefield 1
Battlefield 1 is a first person shooter that has a massive multiplayer following where people fight in WW2. The online is the most part of the game and what most people spend their time on. But the game does have a campaign that lasts for a good amount of time. Since the game is yet to come out i cant say much about the story, but i played in the open beta and the multiplayer was very immersive and fun to play.

3. The Culling

This game is a purely multiplayer gruesome first person fight to the death hunger games kind of theme. In every game you start in a box and find yourself with nothing and in your briefs!
You find buildings and craft things like stone daggers and spears to defend yourself, in the building you can find better gear such as bludgeon weapons or even a knife. anything that is found can be traded in a machine for F.U.N.C this is used to craft things and also call in specialities like airdrops. Before going into a game you get to pick what airdrop that you want some cost more than others, such as a knife and a stun gun would cost less than body armour and a revolver. The story is left up to fans to figure out why you are killing each other and who put you in there.

4. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

This is is another online game that doesn't have a single player, it is a competitive 5v5 game where one team is attacking and one team is defending, this switched every round. The objective changes ever time between the three types of hostage, biohazard container or 2 bombs. Each team has different operators to play as who each have unique abilities such as extra armour for the team or can put up deplyable cameras. But these operators have to be bought with the renown that you earn from matches. There isnt a story for this game, the closest thing to it is the bio for the operators which tells the player where they trained and such.

5. Skyrim
This game is an open world fantasy game, it immerses you from the start as you get sentenced to death but just before they chop your head off a dragon attacks and you have to run and escape to tell the jarl of whiterun about what happened. The amount of quests in this game is unbelievable there are some that are not the main story line but are still as interesting and then there is the main story line which leads you through a mystical journey to release your inner shout and to consume dragons as you find that you are a dragon born. Whether you are doing quests or just on free roam it is still interesting as a dragon can attack at anytime....

6. Dragon Age Inquisition
Dragon age is an open world game with a big aspect of story, depending on what you do you can change the story in different ways. In the start of the game you wake up being held prisoner and being interrogated. You have a strange mark on your hand that can close rifts that spawn demons. You work your way up to eventually become the inquisitor and lead people to a hideaway castle that save peoples lives. There is and online aspect to it where you can pick more races that do different things from single player and you fight in a team of four to carry out various quests. And as suggested in the title there are dragons and they are extremely hard to beat in total there are ten dragons scaling in difficulty.

7. Diablo 3
This game lets you pick from various different classes such as demon hunter, mage, witch doctor or monk. After you have made a character you follow a series of quests through talking to people and learning more about the story. You kill many monsters and various demons to get better gear for you character. The real beauty of the game is in the reaper of souls expansion pack, this allows you to freely roam all the missions that you have done so you can really grind certain mobs to get the gear that you want. It also lets you do rifts that are extremely hard but rewarding.

8. ARK: Survival Evolved
Again this game is online and this is based in the primitive time when dinosaurs were still around and you are a human and have to build a base to protect yourself from the dinosaurs and other player on your server. You can tame dinosaurs, some dinosaurs tame n different ways, first you have to knockout the dinosaur this is done with a non lethal weapon or narcotic arrows. Then you have to figure our of the dino is herbivore or carnivore so you can give it raw meat or berries. then the dino eats what you put in its inventory while it is asleep, but you have to keep it asleep by feeding it narcotics as well. this is just one aspect of the game that can be mastered and can take up to 3 hours to tame something like a T-rex. There is a story but it is a very vague one and you find out more in the end game but it takes quite a long time to get to that.

9. Reign of Kings

Reign of Kings is an online role playing game with no single player aspects. You create a character with the customisation mechanic and join a server that you like, there is no story you create a story as it is a RPG the main aim of the game is to become king. The king gets to set tax and live in the castle, people live throughout the lands role playing as different things suck as lumberjacks, hunters, bards, tavern owners and many more. It is set in the medieval time and you fight with steel armour and great swords. You can build seigeworks such as a trebuchet or a balista. 

10.Mount and Blade Warband
This is a sequel in the Mount and Blade series and the most recent one, in this RPG you again get to create your character but in this game you get to put point into attributes such as archery, leadership and swords. The aim of the game is to make peace with all of the lands, there are 5 factions in the game: Khergit Khanate, Kingdom of Nords, Kingdom of Rhodoks, Kingdom of Swadia and the Kingdom of Vaegirs. You start out on your own and start to gather a following by going to villages and asking for volunteers, you then fight bandits and such to train the volunteers in to trained swordsman and they get better ranks the more they fight. eventually you can join a kingdom or you can try to overthrow one. From there its your choice- make peace with everyone or fight everyone until you own all kingdoms.