Check salary websites elite glass door for more company specific information. blackice: a game designer can make from $50 to $5million depends on what job you do in the making like designing or programming if you program and make an entire game by your self (ya it seems impossible but isn't) you can make millions.ven if you do so you have to sell the game so it can be marketed. on the other hand you can work for a company and some people get paid around $50/hr. and some get paid like 100 grand after the game is done again it depends on where you work and how you work on it.