• A game programmer is a software engineer who makes a “codebase” for a video game.- Codebase: “collection of source code used to build a particular application or component.” – wikipedia 2010

• There are a lot of categories in game programming such asGame Engine ProgrammerPhysics Engine Programmer Graphics Engine ProgrammerArtificial Intelligence Programmer And a lot More

• Each person has a big part of creating games that you play today.

• Game programmers are paid in a very decent fashion.

• Earning 66,000 per year for a programmer• But being a lead programmer, meaning the

leader, will get paid the most with the total of $79,000

• The highest paid programmer makes around $100,000

• You would have to work long hours because of the fact that your putting your ideas and designs together (which takes a long time)

• In a normal work week a game programmer has to be willing to work 40 hours per week.

• But two months before the game release it can get hectic and the programmer would have to work from 80 – 100 hours per week.

• Entry level game programmers have to have good knowledge of the required program.

• If not that they can have a university level programming qualification

• When you enter you become a “junior programmer” and you build your way up with the experience you have

• There is a lot of choices for a game programmer to select where he/she wants to go

• For example in Vancouver, Canada there is a school named The Art Institute of Vancouver , London Ontario Fanshawe College , Everest College , Concord’s Community College in U.S, also many schools in England, companies from all around the world are looking for a lot of students that just come out of college or university.

• Basically THERES A LOT!

• Once reason I would want to be a game programmer is because I want to make a game of something that people want to see.

• While I'm playing video games I always think of games that I could create or like how could this game be better.

• In this curiousness this makes me want to be a game programmer.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_programmerhttp://

http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/

http://www.humber.ca/program/11661

http://www.whatsalary.com/

• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Game_programming