Employment oppurtunities

- What job roles are available in your chosen sector?
animator
assistant producer
audio engineer
Creative director
DevOps Engineer
External Producer
Game Designer
Game Programmer
Lead Artist
Game Artist
Lead programmer
Level Editor
Narrative copywriter
Product Manager
Producer/Product manager
QA tester
Technical Artist

-How do some of these job roles overlap and interconnect?

A role within this sector which interacts in between two separate job roles would be the technical artist because their role is to act as a bridge between the Artists and the Programmers by combining the visual development with the programmers use of coding of how the game would be running for the product. The more obvious interconnecting roles would be lead artists and programmers who lead together their individual team such as the art based and the programming based sections within the organisation.

-How can these job roles evolve and develop over time? (e.g. working way up the ladder)

source: http://creativeskillset.org/creative_industries/games/job_roles/328_creative_director_games

There is no set route for you to follow to become a Creative Director, but it is not an entry-level role. You will usually need over five years’ experience in a senior game development position, with commercially successful titles under your belt.

You could work your way up to this role from previous experience working as a Lead Artist or Lead Designer, or from a production background. You will need to have developed an exceptional understanding of how the different components of a game combine together to create the finished product.

 -Why do you need to regularly update knowledge and skills to work in this industry and what courses/training/professional development can you do?

For this specified sector it's crucial to update your knowledge or you'll just be overpowered by the the competition of other companies within the gaming sector. For example, Microsoft and sony are competing within the new generation consoles  when they announced the production of Xbox One and Playstation 4 which was within 2013 which competed for both software but also pricing.