Video gaming is apparently the most favorite time-pass activity of the youth, as well as children and adults. Although Japan is the country with the most gamers, India is not far behind either. Children involved physically and mentally in the monitor and keyboard of their PC and fascinatingly enjoying counter –strike, NFS etc., is a common scene in most of the houses at present. Gaming is becoming a craze for the youth in India and because of this craze in gaming, many gamers get interested to know more about how these games are designed and developed.

It is this craze, passion and indispensable need of games today that has resulted in the study of Game Designing Course. Although it is pretty interesting, Game designing course is quite tough. Developing games, which are basically interactive softwares, take a lot of time and effort. Game designing deals with designing the rules and content of a video game, design of how the game should be played, designing game environments, characters and even the storyline.

Skills required for aspirants of the course

• Creativity
• Artistic skill
• Technical competence
• Writing and documentation skills

Gaming designing is a course with great scope if a candidate has the necessary skills. The course deals with the following disciplines:

• World design: Creating back story, theme and setting of the game
• System design: Creation of underlying mathematical patterns as well as game rules
• Content design: Creating the characters, items, puzzles, mission etc of the game
• Game writing: Writing and documenting the concepts, dialogue, text and story of the game
• Level design: Constructing world levels, environments and their features in the game
• User Interface design: Defines how the user should interact with the game and construct the feedback interface accordingly

In the course, aspirants would be trained in various tools and techniques so that they can use their creativity to implement these concepts in a game. Successfully designing and developing video games which match the present trends and satisfy the gamers, would give great reputation for the game designer as well as the firm for which the game is designed.

So basically, skills in designing a game would earn a professional a lot of respect and a lot more money. This would also help aspirants in being skillful enough to start their own game designing firms and hence become a successful entrepreneur. This is one great course which appreciates and showcases skills and creativity of a professional in this era of technology.