Video Game Director Research Paper

Video games have been becoming bigger and bigger throughout the years. With this increasing popularity, budgets for video games are being raised higher and higher to meet the demands of an amazing game. Now only the top dogs of the business, like Rockstar, Naughty Dog, or Kojima Productions can even afford to make a successful video game. It is a hard and long journey, but someone can get there through perseverance. In this essay i will talk about my way of getting to the point where i can make a video game and own a company. First I will talk about the pro’s of becoming a video game director. Coming up first is the money, successful video games like Uncharted 2, Fallout 4, and Metal Gear Solid V all passed the 100 million mark in earnings. Each game had a creative storyline, impressive gameplay, and overall high ratings. To even get that far, you need to be able to have an open and creative mind, which I’ll talk about later. Being able to share your ideas and …show more content…
The con’s can be very extreme you are not careful. Some examples of extreme cons are going way over budget, losing a partnership with another company, going bankrupt, and even losing workers for your game. People just might not like your game either, and that is where the creative mind comes in, and again I will talk about that later. The biggest problem in video games at this time, is milking a franchise so badly that you get recognized for it. The company, EA, is now known for that. They have milked a popular franchise called “Assassin’s Creed.” This game was amazing, it had all these new ideas that have never been thought of. Then, there was a sequel, which was amazing. Next year comes, so does Assassin’s Creed 3. Not bad i guess, but what else do you have EA? After that, it was all down hill, but the recent “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate,” was said to reform the series. That is more of a problem for the fans rather than the company, but it still makes it way into the con’s