1.1 - The Door Problem

1.1 The Door Problem

In my opinion, the roles of Creative Director, Concept Artist, Art Director, Writer, Character Artist, QA Tester, Localization, and PR are the most appealing. I like a lot of these roles because many of them fall more on the visual artistic side, which is both what I enjoy and what I feel I am good at. I am also interested in and currently studying writing and a couple languages. Also I think QA Tester might just be a cool job (although often tedious).

On the other hand, I think roles like Audio Engineer, Gameplay Programmer, AI Programmer, Network Programmer, Core Engine Programmer, and Tools Programmer. I am absolutely not a tech savvy person, and programming/coding is one of my biggest weaknesses. It is also something that I personally do not enjoy at all. I think jobs like these would frustrate and bore me immensely.

Overall, I think the reading was very enjoyable and helped me to start to conceptualize many of the roles in the game industry that I didn’t have a good grasp of beforehand. I think seeing this helps me get a more clear idea of what direction I might want to go in if I continue with games.