My Dream Job

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My dream job would be to work as a game programmer. A game programmer is someone who develops the codes that create the game and the rules for the game; in short they make video games. I say that being a programmer is my dream job, because I personally love reading about the games, buying games, and playing video games. Video games are not just for kids. In today's world you can could go to any shop or store and find adults, ranging in various ages, checking out the selection of games available, not only for their children, but for themselves as well. The business of making and selling video games has taken off to new heights, since coming out in the 1970s. Since then, the industry has become a multi-billion dollar industry, totaling roughly about 26.6 billion dollars a year. Not only does the industry make games they also finance magazine companies that talk about up and coming games that developers have created. I first started reading about video games from a magazine that I had seen in a store. In the magazine, there was detailed information about games that were soon to be release, as well as the ones already out. There was also information about the developers that created the games and how they came up with the concept for the game. From that point on, I was hooked. The different types of games out on the market are generally categorized together into groups that are referred to as genres. This is similar to movies, music, and books. Programmers develop so many types of games that there is pretty much as many genres as there are games themselves. The way a game is put into a genre is not by the setting, or the games content, but by a set of gameplay challenges with the game. As I stated in the first paragraph, the video game industry generates approximately 26.6 billion dollar annually. The programmers are a different story, since there are so many

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