How's much in term's of salary can I expect to make if I persue a career in video game design/development?

Question

And let's say after a while, I climb the latter of success, and I get to the point where I'm a "creative director" of sort's and I head up the entire production of the game?

Answer 1

look that up in salary.com or in salaryexpert.com. Look up the careers you are interested on and it should give you a pretty good idea on what you should be making.

visit the www.dol.gov and look up the criteria for computer design professionals, they should give you some good ranges there too. I would look that up by geographical area as well... if you live in Cali or the coast you would have a greater salary of course....

10 points please ;)

Answer 2

Not much, my friend. I'm just being honest.

You'd make, at best, an average income for the rest of your life, even if you became head of production for a game.

In my opinion, the gaming industry needs to have a lot of growth - more than they've had over the previous 10 years - over the next decade or so to really be able to pay top dollar for game designers. I don't think that'll happen until they make some kind of gaming system that lets users control the characters in the game by 100% body movement - sort of like what you might have seen in the movie The Island where two people were boxing each other in a video game and controlling the characters with their own body movement. That technology might not be far off, though.

Also, I don't think you'll see game designers making much until the gaming market really takes off and I don't believe that will happen until middle-aged adults start playing a lot more.