To get into the game industry is an elastic term. You can try to form your own "Dream Team" and follow the path of an indie enthusiast, mastering all the subtleties of game building on your own. You can go through specialized courses. Or you can find a classic entry-level job at a large company and learn the basics of teamwork there. But, sooner or later, you can still be faced with another job search. It doesn't matter if it will be connected with the closure of the company/downsizing of the ranks, or if a tired of indie developers will want to do something more ambitious as a team member of a big game company - in all cases, you will have to look for a job. In this article, I will tell you what can help both beginners and established professionals to find a job in the game industry.
TIP#1 LOVE WHAT YOU DO & SPECIALIZE
The reason why I say this is because if you’re excited to go to work then you’re going to do a good job. So, picking a path is picking what part of game development you want to be a part of. Do you want to be involved in art, in design, in programming - or do you want to be a support function? Do you want to work in IT, work in Consumer Experience, in Branding? There are many jobs within games not just game design. If you’re passionate about games, if you love playing games, you love watching games, whatever it might be just stick with that for that. Use your knowledge of games and bring that with you into the industry.
TIP#2 BE CURIOUS & EAGER TO LEARN
This is about educating yourself, being knowledgeable about your topic and it doesn’t necessarily mean going to university. You can self-teach online. But one of the things we really look for is practical experience. So, have you done an internship? Or are you involved in communities? Do you have an active portfolio? Do you have passion projects? Things that you are working on and developing all the time. Every job ad that we post we list some of the tools that you would need in those roles. So I would suggest looking at those tools and pick them up as a hobby may be. Develop your skills with those tool sets. Obviously, if it’s Programming or Game Design you want to look at Unity and Unreal. And then maybe more design skills like Photoshop, Brush. All these things will help you to develop your craft.