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.