The difference between game design and game development is that game designers are responsible for the designs and layout of the game whereas game developer turns those designs into a product.

As a game designer, your job roles and key skills include:

• Identifies gaming trends which are popular.
• Creativity.
• Works with other game designers to produce ideas for new games.
• Time management.
• Produce a game design plan.
• Determine the audience for their game design, i.e. what kind of audience is best suited for the game.
• Consider alterations that can improve existing games.

As a game designer, you can create layouts, story lines, designs, characters and scenery for new games. You can work with other designers in a team to generate new innovative ideas and devise puzzles or missions for gamers to complete. For this you need to have Bachelor’s degree in Game Arts, Interactive Media, Game Design or some related field. But you also require computer training.

As a game developer, your job roles and key skills include:

• Reviews game design plans.
• Codes the design of the game into a product.
• Makes sure the game operates properly.
• Makes corrections to the code in case of any errors.
• The logical approach to problem-solving.
• Documents game design progress.

As a game developer, you can choose to develop software for a particular kind of game console or develop games for mobiles, personal computers, etc. For this, you need to have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, and Software Engineering.

If you think that you are creative and have design talents, then being a game designer is the best path for you. But if coding is your thing instead of creativity, then you can go on the game development side and enjoy its perks.

Both has good scope, if done properly and you can bring innovative ideas to this game industry.

Hey Aspirant,

As all the game designers are game developers but not all game developers are game designers.

Game Designer:-is a catch all for programmers, artists, musicians, voice artists etc.

whereas, the game developer is a specific role its a person who designs the overall nature of the game

So according to current generation the game developer has a higher scope.