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Video Game Designers
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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Devise missions, challenges, or puzzles to be encountered in game play.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Conduct regular design reviews throughout the game development process.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop and maintain design level documentation, including mechanics, guidelines, and mission outlines.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Document all aspects of formal game design, using mock-up screenshots, sample menu layouts, gameplay flowcharts, and other graphical devices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Create and manage documentation, production schedules, prototyping goals, and communication plans in collaboration with production staff.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Provide feedback to production staff regarding technical game qualities or adherence to original design.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss25%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
67%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 86% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps designers use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.