How to Get a Game Development Job - My Best Tips For Beginners & Experts 

I assume it varies drastically from country to country, but I've heard stories from friends about quite a few unconventional uses for Unity where it was the display or interaction system for a variety of non-game related stuff. In at least a few countries there are government projects with Unity for the interaction system as well, but again it's hard to say w/o any local experience there. If anyone in comments has advice too though I'd love to hear it and learn more myself..

@@Unity3dCollege Thank you, Jason, for the pin.

Same here bro, it's bearly a few open positions with Unity in my country, however, don't give up if that makes you happy. I am currently working as a DB developer at a full-time job because I can't find anything good with Unity so far, but I am working on my own projects in my spare time. Also trying to help people with freelance projects(with Unity projects) and sometimes I am actually finding some, so there is a hope and a way :), just keep going at some point you will find something :)

I dont know from where are you but i am from pakistan and i am a inde developer currently work in unity. I also thought there is no jobs for a unity developer but i was wrong because I check rozee.pk where you can find alot of unity jobs there. so my recommendations make sure you first check all local jobs portal websites so you will also learn what your local game studios want from you as a unity developer. Good Luck

@@abdurrehmankhan1699 greetings bhai. I'm from Bangladesh. Yeah I did check my local job portals and applied for a few of them. And problem is the listings say it requires 1-2 years worth working experience. That's a bit of a problem since the opportunity is so rare. But thank you for your insights I appreciate them a lot.

Dang, keep on going! The only guaranteed failure is to stop trying!

Where are yu from?

@@nowfelmostafa4456 Colombia

Little uptade, after more of 8 attemps, finally got a job!, It's not a race, it's marathon.

@@Jose-mc5dl dude that's awesome... Yu got any means of contacting yu if yu don't mind

Are you by any chance referring to the "How to get a job in the game industry" course by GameDev.tv? I'm thinking of purchasing the course.

@@malprimitvs577 Yes, that's the course :)

@@svetlinsvilenov8739 #

am 13 have been making games in unity for a bit if ur parents have paypal u can check out brackeys discord server and get a job from aomeone there

How did you managed to do it?

i just want to test video games and nothing else .

Image not being able to sleep because you're actually excited to get to work. That would be so awesome. On the flip side, I usually can't sleep because I have no other choice BUT to go to work haha.

Definitely put the best stuff you've done there. If it's simple projects or systems in partial games, put them up and explain what they are and why they exist. Often just showing that you can do something, finish it, and put it online is a big boost

@@Unity3dCollege That's the great advice. Currently I'm working on my mobile MMORPG game. I have been working on it for 8 months already. When I finish the game, I'll put it on my portfolio and I'll create the game site. That stuff will give me some bonuses for hiring, I guess.

i would say look into these things : Vectors , Trigonometry and Matrixes. But most importanty experiment with the math and dont just remember the formulas , sometimes i even go (desmos. com) to try to make a certain curve/shape using sin and exp or to even try weird combinations , math is a tool to solve problems after all and not just text to memorize ;)

@@Bloodthirst Thanks for the saw many math related tutorials cant connect with the unity3d default functions for math.

Did you find a job ?

@@WellPlayedGamer i did an interview but they didn't choose me at the end. i actually worked on a game called (SMX Supermoto vs Motocross) which current goes really good.

i don't think age is a problem

@@GobiGameDev It's funny. Just 2 weeks after I've made my comment, I got a job offer in the games industry. Wish me luck :)

@@phobos2077_ 2 years later, how's it going?

@@Necromediancer Pretty good. Still working at the same studio. I don't want to go back to web development.

@@phobos2077_ This is exactly my situation right now. Working as web dev for the last decade and I'm still happy I got that job but it's just not what I want to keep doing. I decided to get into Unreal now so I can start working on some portfolio. May I ask how you managed to get that job offer while having no experience in game dev specifically?

Links?

@@keetheswe5784 how can I contact you

@@keetheswe5784 i can't post the link in here

@@poloshirt855 Do you have Discord? from there I can send my email address

@@keetheswe5784 paul0205 the descriminator is 7066

study in your own time, create a few small but polished projects (don't be afraid to clone existing games, as long as you don't sell them) and use that portfolio to apply to companies. or look on job boards and check the skill requirements for openings, and work backwards from there

Hi, this is random as hell, but do you have a Twitter or Discord? I would like to DM you :)

@@packan2640 hi, how its going

100% agree. I've been interested in game development since I was like 14, the art stuff, programming, game design. Eventually a company hired me and because I was so passionate about all these things, I started working long hours for them until I burnt out. For a while I found it very hard concentrate and doing valuable work, even with personal projects. I started thinking this "passion" thing was bullshit that served no one but employers, and in a way it is, but recently I started to understand that it is fine to be passionate, especially when you can create so many beautiful things with a medium like video games. We just have to learn to balance and separate our life and our jobs, and it's hard.

i might know ppl who can.. :)

@@Unity3dCollege That sounds cool. Can we talk about it?

@@Unity3dCollege looks like we can't talk about it 😂

I don't see why not, shoot me an email :)

@@thewolfman4453 Well brother . I am pretty sure shoot email means not share ur Email here but send and email to him lol

What do you mean? (It's been a long time since I recorded it, and it's late night at gdc, so I've lost the context)

Use Discord! There are a lot of great groups out there!

@@TonsOfHunStudios Oh yeah, I am. Though I've gotten more replies from Reddit.

@@feidry Sweet!