How's much in term's of salary can I expect to make if I persue a career in video game design/development?
Asked by flyboy711672005
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?

Best Answer:
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 ;)
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Answered by Crazyquestions

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.
Answered by FinanceMike