Becoming a game designer

Question

Hey guys, I'm dedicated to becoming a game designer to design games such as: Call of Duty games, City of heroes/villains , WoW, those kinds of things.

I have good english skills and I know how to use Photoshop, and all microsoft 2008 programs such as excel and word. I am also very good with computers.

What skills would I need to become a game designer? (Nothing that include drawing though, i'm bad at that) .

Thanks guys :)

Answer 1

If you're going to design your own games, you should learn game theory. Also storyboarding, because each game has an underlying sequence of events, right? And UI design.

There are 3-D modeling apps that you don't need drawing skills for.

Check out the job/career pages of game developer company websites. They will tell you exactly what skills they want for various jobs.

Answer 2

become familure with xna. Thats what is being used to program games right now:

http://creators.xna.com/

I have the links to alot of other game maker related resources too,lol, if you want more, pm me

Answer 3

You need a Graphic Design program. This will allow you to make your charactors but I'm not sure exactly what program you need sorry.  

Answer 4

You will probably need to take some sort of computer language course, being good at photoshop and excel will not be enough to become a games designer.

Good luck.