Synopsis
Discover what it's like to bring games to life!
Virtual Apprentice: Computer Game Designer is a perfect hands-on career guide for kids who love computer games.
Profiles of working professionals, "Reality Check" sidebars, Q&As between real-life kids and pros, and a "Count Me In" journal feature help readers get a you-are-there feel for this exciting job. Loaded with full-color and black-and-white photographs and written in a lively tone, this entertaining guide allows kids to test-drive their dream career as a computer game designer.
Chapters include:
- Get Ready for Action
- Game Designer at Work
- Game Design Tech and Trends
- Game Designer in Training
- The "Players" Who Bring Games to Life
- Kids Ask, Game Designers Answer
- Computer Game Designer for a Day.
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About the Author
Don Rauf is the editor of Careers and Colleges, a magazine for high school juniors and seniors, and he helped write the Career Ideas for Teens series for Facts on File and Checkmark Books. He has published articles in Seventeen, Nick Jr., Young Entrepreneur, and many other youth-oriented publications. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
From Booklist
Just as many young jocks dream of going pro, many young computer gamers hope that their favorite pastime will turn into a career. This in-depth introduction to the field of computer-game design offers specific, practical advice for those teens. Following a basic history of computer games and information about game types and rating levels, chapters, which are illustrated with many color photos, profile contemporary professionals and delve into current trends and the day-to-day work of game creators. A final chapter features game creators’ answers to young gamers’ questions. Frequent text boxes add suggestions for further research, as does an appended list of resources. The closing activity includes write-in blanks, which is unfortunate in a library book, though there’s a warning to take pen to page only if the reader is the book’s owner. Even so, this title in the Virtual Apprentice series offers valuable information about a high-interest area, and will be widely purchased by libraries. Grades 6-9. --Gillian Engberg
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