Video Game Designers
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Calculated automation risk
Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.
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What is the likelihood that Video Game Designers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
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Growth
The number of 'Web and Digital Interface Designers' job openings is expected to rise 7.9% by 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2024.
Wages
In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Web and Digital Interface Designers' was $98,540, or $47 per hour
'Web and Digital Interface Designers' were paid 105.0% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060
Volume
As of 2023 there were 111,060 people employed as 'Web and Digital Interface Designers' within the United States.
This represents around 0.07% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 1 thousand people are employed as 'Web and Digital Interface Designers'.
Job description
Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.
SOC Code: 15-1255.01
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What will have taken a team of designers even now appears to soon be able to take one or two designers at most.
Expect a new indie revolution in gaming when it hits this point.
Currently AI sometimes messes up simple programs,
and also the AI making 3D models, making levels, animating, coding matchmaking, adding an anti cheat, and adding system protection against ddos attacks of a server seems impossible looking at the stuff Ai can do today
They feel lifeless and inert.
reference is GPT-4o
creativity is also an aspect that AI cant control as it needs past data to create something but it cant create something out of the blue
I envision game design becoming user-centric, accessible to everyone. Here's how I think it will work: Imagine you're a person who enjoys video games but has never programmed in your life. That's perfectly fine, as the AI can handle everything for you. All you need to do is convey the concept of the game to the AI, and it will bring it to life.
Want to get specific? The AI will enable you to configure the game mechanics, assets, art style, and everything else according to your imagination. In this future, games will be created by anyone and everyone.
With the addition of custom GPTs, this surely seems like the future we are headed towards. This won't be limited to only video games but will apply to everything.
What an exciting future :)
And even if we are talking of 30/40 years from now, if machines can create extraordinary games, why should we, humans, stop making them? art expression, and communication makes us happy. (and if they can make extraordinary games it means it can do anything and replace anything so why should we care?)
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