The Video Game Industry is the industry responsible for the development, marketing and sale of video games. The industry involves various job disciplines such as video game developing, and is a source of employment for thousands of individuals globally.

If you want to take a career in video game programming, a Bachelor’s degree in Game and Simulation Programming is a course that will prepare you for that career path. While the course will equip you with the skills required to join the public and private sector of the game software Industry as a Video Game Developer, you can also assume other roles such as software engineer, video programming and project coordinator.

The cutting-edge, applications-focused curriculum will equip you with video game programming fundamentals, game designing and modifications and 2D and 2D graphics programming. Well, upon graduation as a fully fledged video game developer, one will be responsible (as a business entity or an individual) for developing software that will be used to create video games.

A video Game Developer can develop games for various systems such as PCs, or specialize in a particular video game console like Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, or Sony’s PlayStation 3. Some other Video Game Developers can opt to specialize in particular types of games like first-person shooters, or computer role-playing games.

Other roles of a video Game Developer include transporting games from a particular system to another or game translation from one language to another. There are three main categories that a Video Game Developer will fall into: in house developer, third-party developer or independent developer.