Game designers are vital people in the game industry. They are not programmers, artists, developers, 3d designers, publishers. Every thing has some importance, even game designers has some importance. Similarly game designers also have some importance in the game industry. There is nothing in this world affable. Designer is a person who lays out the plan for anything. A game designer lays out the plan for a game.

In the game industry as well, there must be some one who would actually layout the whole game before it is implemented. There will be no game studio without a game designer. As an architect designs a map for a house, the house is than built on the basis of the map by the team of builders. Similarly, a game designer designs the game on paper which is going to be the base of the game for all the other members of the development team.

A game designer also will be needed to give the game a life in paper (i.e. write game design documents). Getting with new ideas is not the only job of a game designer. Any one who plays games can get ideas, like he wants this in the game or this mod must be there in a game, etc. The actual problem is whether the idea is going to be good, and if it is good is it possible to implement it. Some ideas might seem like awesome,. But when you actually get down to implement it, it will be a headache or not possible. Normally it takes quite some time for developing games (there is no fixed times, some take around 6 months, where as some take years to complete). It depends on the game, how big and how complicated is it?

A game can be complicated be by complex A.I., Game play, Graphics, etc. There surely exist millions of ideas for games but not all are good and not all are bad. It depends on a game designer as well to give a game an awesome story and make the game a super hit, but the game can be disappointing as well. The first thing to make sure is that there is no or very little repetitive game play. As repetition makes a game really boring and looses the interest of the gamer. Well I guess this was about some of the things about a game designer should do.

Note: This article is not supposed to teach you Game designing from A – Z. if you would like to learn there are plenty of books written by professional game designers.