Course: How To Start Your Career In Games Development

We’ve taken you on a long journey over the last four weeks. Let’s review what you’ve learned before you go. Through the eyes of our four developers, you’ve discovered: How …

As we see in this short video, our developers and experts share what they still want to learn, and offer some final pieces of advice for you. Hopefully, you’ll be …

What do our developers and experts think of the interviewing process? We find out in this video. How do you feel about the interview process now you’ve heard what our …

Interviews are not just for the studio to find out about you – they give you an opportunity to learn about that company too. Have a look at some handy …

Many people find the ‘any questions’ part of an interview daunting but they can be one of the most important parts of the interview, often left until last when you …

How do you present the best version of yourself? In this video with our developers, we see some of the things that could affect the impression you give to an …

What practical tasks should you expect to complete in an interview? What you’ll be asked to do varies based on your chosen role: Programmer Tasks A common practical task for …

In this video, our developers describe their interviews and how they handled them. As you watch them describe their interviews, you’ll see that even successful candidates can let their anticipation …

We thought one of the best ways to help you prepare for an interview is to practise responding to questions the interviewers might ask. In this video, Chella is going …

Our experts Karen McLoughlin, Ian Goodall, Claire Boissiere and Ed Perkins gave lots of advice on how to tackle interviews. General approach Interviews are conversations where you get to know …

In this step, you’ll hear the developers reflect on how they felt ahead of their interview. Can you guess what actually happened? Were their predictions accurate?

By the end of this final week, you’ll be much better equipped to face interviews, because you’ll have heard what studios are looking for, what happened to our developers, and …

This might have been one of the most challenging weeks, because you’ve been looking hard at the application process, which can be pretty daunting, and examining gaps in your skill …

Action plans are ways for developers to plug gaps in their CVs. They can take a variety of forms, some games-specific, some not remotely connected with games, but for all …

How do you prepare for applications? In this video, you’ll see the variety of approaches taken by our developers. After watching, discuss the ways in which they prepared for applications, …