Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

ICT application developertodigital games developer

A ICT application developer already meets 75% of what the digital games developer role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ICT application developer
75%
Overlap1
To digital games developer
68 Skills carried over
8 Required, not held
35.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

75%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

35.4/ 100

1 Share of the digital games developer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT application developer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A digital games developer role treats 11 of its required skills as things a ICT application developer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • ICT debugging tools
  • analyse software specifications
  • computer programming
  • debug software
  • develop software prototype
  • integrated development environment software

What stands in the way is 8 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 68 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A digital games developer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT application developer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held Xcode information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held adapt to changes in technological development plans communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held use concurrent programming working with computers
  • already held use functional programming working with computers
  • already held KDevelop information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held use logic programming working with computers

All 68 carried skills, including the 11 the digital games developer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 14 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 arts and humanities 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held 3D lighting required
  • required, not held 3D texturing required
  • required, not held digital game genres required
  • optional, not held interactive media optional
02 working with computers 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held apply 3D imaging techniques required
  • required, not held develop digital content required
  • optional, not held develop virtual game engine optional
03 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held computer graphics required
  • optional, not held Joomla optional
  • optional, not held augmented reality optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required
  • required, not held render 3D images required
05 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held execute analytical mathematical calculations required
06 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held trigonometry optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a digital games developer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 68 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT debugging tools knowledge
  • already held analyse software specifications skill
  • already held computer programming knowledge
  • already held debug software skill
  • already held develop software prototype skill
  • already held integrated development environment software knowledge
  • already held interpret technical texts skill
  • already held tools for software configuration management knowledge
  • already held use software design patterns skill
  • already held use software libraries skill
  • already held utilise computer-aided software engineering tools skill
  • already held ABAP knowledge
  • already held AJAX knowledge
  • already held APL knowledge
  • already held ASP.NET knowledge
  • already held Ansible knowledge
  • already held Apache Maven knowledge
  • already held Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held C# knowledge
  • already held C++ knowledge
  • already held COBOL knowledge
  • already held Common Lisp knowledge
  • already held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) knowledge
  • already held Groovy knowledge
  • already held Haskell knowledge
  • already held Internet of Things knowledge
  • already held Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held JavaScript knowledge
  • already held Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
  • already held KDevelop knowledge
  • already held Lisp knowledge
  • already held MATLAB knowledge
  • already held ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
  • already held Objective-C knowledge
  • already held OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • already held PHP knowledge
  • already held Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Perl knowledge
  • already held Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Puppet (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
  • already held Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held R knowledge
  • already held Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held SAP R3 knowledge
  • already held SAS language knowledge
  • already held STAF knowledge
  • already held Salt (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
  • already held Scala knowledge
  • already held Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held TypeScript knowledge
  • already held VBScript knowledge
  • already held Visual Basic knowledge
  • already held World Wide Web Consortium standards knowledge
  • already held Xcode knowledge
  • already held adapt to changes in technological development plans skill
  • already held create flowchart diagram skill
  • already held design user interface skill
  • already held develop creative ideas skill
  • already held integrate system components skill
  • already held object-oriented modelling knowledge
  • already held software anomalies knowledge
  • already held use automatic programming skill
  • already held use concurrent programming skill
  • already held use functional programming skill
  • already held use logic programming skill
  • already held use object-oriented programming skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held assist multimedia operator optional
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Joomla optional
  • optional, not held assist multimedia operator optional
  • optional, not held develop virtual game engine optional
  • optional, not held trigonometry optional
  • optional, not held augmented reality optional
  • optional, not held interactive media optional
23 held skills the digital games developer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role Ajax Framework knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Drupal knowledge
  • not needed by the target role IBM WebSphere knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT security legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role JavaScript Framework knowledge
  • not needed by the target role NoSQL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Open source model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Outsourcing model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SPARK knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SQL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role WordPress knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect customer feedback on applications skill
  • not needed by the target role develop automated migration methods skill
  • not needed by the target role develop food scanner devices skill
  • not needed by the target role do cloud refactoring skill
  • not needed by the target role hybrid model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify customer requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role manage business knowledge skill
  • not needed by the target role migrate existing data skill
  • not needed by the target role propose ICT solutions to business problems skill
  • not needed by the target role software frameworks knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use an application-specific interface skill
  • not needed by the target role use query languages skill
8 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held 3D lighting required
  • required, not held 3D texturing required
  • required, not held digital game genres required
  • required, not held computer graphics required
  • optional, not held Joomla optional
  • optional, not held trigonometry optional
  • optional, not held augmented reality optional
  • optional, not held interactive media optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT application developer

Full index of moves from ICT application developer

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.