A game designer can be compared to a movie scriptwriter: the person who has the initial idea and then writes a document describing every detail of their artistic vision. Game designers are creative, methodical, and communicate well. They have strong technical skills, enthusiasm for video games and sound gaming knowledge. Is this you? Many universities run exciting courses, so go for it!

Whatever career you choose I am sure having good ICT skills will give you confidence and help you a lot. Some people go on to web design, business, graphics work, database design animation... the list is endless really.

The answer is no. The point is how would you feel if you saw an image you'd created being passed off as someone else's? Admit it! You would be peeved. Why not take your own photographs and create your own graphics?

Plagiarism is submitting some work and pretending it's your own. Research is great and your teacher will give you credit for it. However you must acknowledge who the original author was and put in inverted commas anything you directly quote from the author's work. Don't think you can get away with it as there are programs which can "sniff "out where you got the research from.

It depends. What do you want to use your computer for? Apple macs certainly look cool and you can even run Windows on the latest ones. If you like ease of use and love video editing and graphics as well as the usual word processing etc then a mac is ideal. However if you are a games freak then a Windows PC is the best bet. Then again there's Linux, but that's another story.

Don't worry. OpenOffice is free and some people think it is better than Microsoft Office. You can save documents in Word, PowerPoint and Excel formats. Download it from http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.0/

A USB flash memory stick s the best way to go. Buy one for £12 from the ICT department with a Marlwood logo on. Don't forget to take it with you!