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Digital games designer

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Computer games designer Digital game designer Digital games designer Digital games designers Video games designer Virtual games designer

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.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Determining the objectives and constraints of the design brief by consulting with clients and stakeholders;
(b) Undertaking research and analysing functional communication requirements;
(c) Formulating design concepts for the subject to be communicated;
(d) Preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations and layouts to communicate design concepts;
(e) Designing complex graphics and animation to satisfy functional, aesthetic and creative requirements of the design brief;
(f) Creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modelling programmes;
(g) Negotiating design solutions with clients, management, sales and production staff;
(h) Selecting, specifying or recommending functional and aesthetic materials and media for publication, delivery or display;
(i) Detailing and documenting the selected design for production;
(j) Supervising or carrying out production in the chosen media.

Knowledge

  • Software and applications development and analysis
  • Audio-visual techniques and media production
  • Computer use
  • Database and network design and administration
  • Law

Digital competencies

  • Creating artistic designs or performances
  • Designing systems and products
  • Developing operational policies and procedures
  • Estimating resource needs
  • Analysing business operations

Digital competencies

  • Creating visual displays and decorations
  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data
  • Designing ict systems or applications
  • Using digital tools for processing sound and images
  • Programming computer systems

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Thinking creatively and innovatively

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Science and engineering professionals

Other teaching professionals

Education methods specialists

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Education methods specialists

826

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

50,21%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-15,37% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

76,39%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,38%

Part-time contracts

1,09% Turnover index

1.479

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

16%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Science and engineering professionals

38%

62%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Other teaching professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Education methods specialists

No experience
7%
Less than 1 year
38%
Between 1 and 2 years
17%
Between 2 and 4 years
16%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
17%
Activitats professionals, científiques i tècniques
45%
Educació
16%
Informació i comunicacions
9%
Activitats artístiques, recreatives i d'entreteniment
9%
Activitats administratives i serveis auxiliars
7%
Altres
14%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.