Video Game Dev & Design
Video games are no longer just addictive activities that parents strive to limit for their children. The value of the video game industry is more than $55 billion globally.
Video games have their obvious use of entertainment: but the extent of their use and benefits has only just been realized. These games are used to help in children’s cognitive and special development. They teach children various lessons when used as teaching tools. Video games consist of a big chunk of the entertainment industry, not just as a one way activity: video games promote sports, art, creativity or any number of things by creating a new activity out of it. Those who cannot afford to become a member of a golf club or have no way of realizing their musical fantasies can now live these dreams through a video game.
This is without touching the use of video games in basic schooling, simulation teaching in high risk situations and in marketing. If you choose to work this career, you will probably stand to benefit more than you can imagine.
Degrees in video game development and design are available online. They focus on engineering, graphic design and animation. Course outlines would probably contain:
- interactive programming
- 2-D and 3-D modeling
- Java
- C++
- HTML
- CSS
- game physics and narrative development
- critical thinking
- logic
- communication
- problem solving
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- PHP