Game Development CareersPast, Present, and Future

Jesse Schell (@jesseschell)

PACISE 2015

Game Industry Careers

•Programmer

•Artist

•Designer

•Producer

Game Programmer

• Code A LOT

• Code on a team

• Do Game Jams, to learn rapid prototyping

• Finish things, to learn software engineering

• Build a portfolio of games and demos

Game Artist

• Focus on classic skills

• Make beautiful things

• Get good at fast sketches

• Learn to collaborate with programmers

• Build a portfolio

Game Designer

• Learn about everything

• Write about games constantly

• Design a lot of games

• Do as many game jams as you can

• Work with artists and programmers

Game Producer

• Learn about project management

• Learn about Agile

• Become a wizard of documents

• Help teams solve problems

• Learn how games are made –estimate every game you play

• Study post-mortems

• Build a portfolio

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Email: jesse@schellgames.com