How To Start Your Career In Games Development (FutureLearn)

You’ll learn how to assess your skills, and about strategies for demonstrating them in applications. You will practise sample interview tasks, and both give and receive feedback. By the end of the course you should be equipped with tools and advice from games recruiters to help you start your career in game development.

What topics will you cover?

- How games developers got their start in games development

- What entry-level games programmers, artists, designers and producers do day to day and how they work together

- What are the hidden professional skills that could make you easier to hire

- What recruitment companies would like to see in your CV and what could help you stand out from the crowd

- Tips on providing evidence that you can do a games job, even if you lack experience

- Inside the interview room – what games studios are really looking for at interviews

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Explain the different roles, duties, processes and working relationships in games development teams

- Evaluate the technical and professional skills used in games development

- Assess and classify your skills and the skills you wish to develop

- Describe key stages and employer expectations for successful games development applications

- Apply strategies to evidence your professional and specialist skills

- Justify experience and skills in a games interview setting, applying strategies to prepare to answer common question

- Develop a set of questions to ask at games interviews

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in working in games development, including those who are studying or have studied games development at academies and/or universities.