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1. Character design is very important to a gaming designer so these illustrations are a great example of what a gaming designer may do. A video game designer also creates different things the characters in the video games like weapons, food, and scene backgrounds. You could also be a digital gaming designer were they create designs for magazines and their sites off of the actual video game.

2. A game designer creates not just the idea for the game, but the plot, the goals, and the characters in the game. They not only create video games but computer games as well.

Website: http://www.gameinformer.com/

3. People who are very creative are required for this job, to create the plot and characters and also know how to play video and computer games. Working with others to bring the game to life is also important so people who are outgoing would do good in this field. They also need to be able to come up with ideas quick and stick with it and be enthusiastic. If other people don’t agree with your idea, you need to be able to still go through with it and voice your ideas to other. Its also recommended that you have an ego to keep going and good judgement.

website; http://www.gamedesignersalarydata.com/

4. To be a game designer you need to go to college, either at a technical institute or art institute. You can either get a masters in game design or a bachelors in game art or game development.

Website: http://www.fullsail.edu/degrees/game-design-masters

5. Game Designer Salary Data:

Lowest Salaries:$37,472

Average Salaries: $62,739

Highest Salaries: $88,116 Game Designer Salaries by Experience: Less than 1 year: $41,620 1-4 years: $46,832 5-9 years: $61,389

Website: http://www.gamedesignersalarydata.com/

6. A portfolio is needed for a game designer to show companies what the game designer can do and their style because every video game or computer game has a different style to it. An Internship is a chance to show what you’ve got so getting one with any company will help get your name out there.

7. Starting out, game designer start as part of a team that works on basic parts of the game like creating the game levels. As you gain experience and move higher up, you get to be part of the lead design team and if your games do well enough, you could become the lead designer, head writer, or lead artist. When you get good enough, you can also start your own business.

Website: http://www.careertoolkits.com/video-game-designer/video-game-designer-careers.html

8. For my self promotional piece I am going to do something like this: With information on one of the sides and then actual character designs/illustrations on the other flaps. This will go good for getting my name out there because it has an interesting shape that will catch peoples attention.




 * I am also thinking about doing cake designs like the 3 examples about. The 3 example above illustrate this career very well in that a cake designer creates

go to a 2 year university of the culinary arts to become a patisserie chef which cake designing and making will be taught.
 * A cake designer creates how many layers a cake may be, what type of cake to use, if to use frosting of fondant, what the theme is going to be, and many more aspects of the cake. For this career you have to

website: http://www.ehow.com/info_7809379_yearly-salary-cake-decorator.html  * A cake designer fresh out of a culinary university is safe off going to work for a company that specializes in cakes.  * A typical day for a cake designer involves getting up at the break of dawn to make a cake that is probably needed to be made for an occasion such as a wedding by the next day, and staying up until the break of dawn to finish it.  * For this self promotional piece I would make a container much like a Chinese carton with information on the outside and different cake designs. On the inside there would be a sculpture made out of either modeling chocolate or rice crispy treats. This would illustrate this career well because it is very common now days to have different sculptures and what not on cakes.  Websites: http://galleries.austin360.com/gallery/crazy-cake-decorators/ http://abduzeedo.com/25-crazy-cake-designs http://blushless.com/blog/2009/12/
 * A cake decorator working in a company earns a salary range of $20,317 to $31,742, and those working as self-employed decorators earn a range of $19,653 to $30,521.