If you're thinking of a videogame vocation or you're merely interested in what such people do, pick up Marc Saltzman's new book "Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts."
This 600+ page tome offers a detailed look inside the multi-billion videogame industry with a large assortment of interviews and commentaries from some of the most prominent players in the business, including Wil Wright, creator of "The Sims," Tammy Schachter, prototypical publicist at Konami of America, and Nolan Bushnell, the dubiously dubbed "father of videogames."