SuitabookVideo games
Kevin Cunningham
- Reading
- Read it as a springboard rather than a complete career guide: pause over unfamiliar roles, compare how team members contribute, and check whether the child wants history, design, programming or industry detail.
- Themes
- Video games as collaborative work: The book explains that large teams of specialised workers design, plan and programme games, with varied jobs contributing to one product. Work on games is presented informationally, with attention to collaboration, skills and the effort required.
- Routes into games careers: The book includes education and training, and describes STEM skills and problem-solving as part of creating games. Career preparation is explained through skills and learning routes, rather than treated only as entertainment.
- Change in the games industry: The book covers Pong and what came after, and describes games developing from early examples to newer technologies and a large business. Historical and technological change is used to place current game-making work in context.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to Video games as collaborative work.