Video Game Design Vocabulary

This person creates the visual elements of the game (2D or 3D)

• Donkey Kong

• Audio Engineer

• Art Designer (Lead Artist)

• Creative Director

responsible for selecting the personnel and assigning job roles for each person or team used to build a game

• Creative Director

• Spongebob

• Game Designer

• Glitch

Setting in which game play takes place

• CandyLand

• Game Land

• GameBoy

• Game World

dramatic writers for the team

• Bowzer Writers

• Game Writers

• Creative Writers

• Book Writers

responsible for creating the game world and game functions for a single level

• Model

• Producer

• project manager

• Level Designer

the person that actually gets paid to play the video games (entry level position)

• Producer

• Quality Assurance Tester

• Teenagers

• project manager

Role Playing Game - player speaks into a microphone to communicate with the characters in the game or must identify smell

• MLB

• GDP

• NBA

• RPG

an electronic game that creates an artificial game environment on a video screen

• Video Game

• Game Console

• Multiplayer

• Tomb Raider

a designer who develops the overall ideas for characters and settings in a video game

• concept artist

• character artist

• animator

• super mario

a designer who designs and draws characters for a video game

• spiderman

• sandwich artist

• character artist

• creative artist