is it necessary to have good drawing and sketching skills to become a good game designer?

Hi Shekhar, To join game designing courses, 10+2, will be enough. There is no requirement of minimum marks. The only requirement is that the school or board should be recognized by the government. Some gaming institutes also take graduates from any discipline. This will vary from institution to institution. But there is no set criterion for admission into game designing courses. For your reference, below is the link of institutes, please refer to it. tinyurl.com/6qgbh33 (Link : Game Design Institutes) (Please place the URL in the address bar.) There are many well known game companies in the market such as Csharks ltd., Smackall, Synapse etc. Thus, the game designing course is slowly evolving and the demand for the same is also going up. Please feel free to discuss more. Click on the thumbs up or mark it as the best, if you found this useful. Wish You Luck!

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Dear Shekar, its not 100% compulsory to know drawing to become a game designer. But yes if you have the knowledge of art then its easy for you to understand the detailing required, your observation skills are strengthen and you can understand the proportions easily. 2D is always an added advantage in this domain , though its not 100% compulsory.

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Sketching is the language that designers use to talk to each other. This needs to be understood. So if you want to design something do learn sketching. Otherwise, you can rather focus on game production than design. Additionally, to become a Game Designer, you must get a good knowledge of 3D software as well as preproduction. Usually in Games the environment is created in 3DSMax and Character animations in Maya, Only the models are made with less polygons and more textures. So choose a program that teaches you these software. It would not matter whether the programme is called game design programme or not. Rest, to become a level designer you must have a passion for game design. Also you must have passion for playing all kinds of games including card games, dice games, sports etc. May I ask, have you ever designed a game? Finally, to do game programming you would require knowledge of programming in which usually a BCA/ MCA would help. If you like this answer you may select it as best answer or press like.

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