What is Video Game Design?
Video game design is the practice of designing video games, as the name implies. It involves many different facets, including general video game design, story design, programming, level design, and other components. As games have become a massive industry, video game design has become a highly sought-after profession, in spite of often intense work hours, relatively mid-line pay scales, and a high burnout rate. Whole schools have opened up focusing exclusively on video game design, as a whole generation looks to video games as a lifelong career. In the past, a single person often handled all aspects of video game design, as games were much simpler. One person would come up with a game concept, figure out how to implement it, design the simple graphics, program the game, and build levels. In time, this turned into small teams working on games, even at larger game companies. Eventually, video game design became its own thing, and people began to become well known for their designs, with
