Video game designers need knowledge in the following areas:

• Design: Making and using plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Computers and Electronics: Computer hardware and software.
• Communications and Media: How to produce written, spoken or visual media.
• Psychology: People, their actions, and mental processes and how to treat problems.
• Mathematics: The rules and uses of numbers.
• English Language: The meaning and use of the English language.