I see a lot of chat on here about people wanting to get in to game dev full time (At a studio rather than indie)
If you donât mind Iâd like to offer some advice based on my own experience. Just to warn you, itâs not a list of super fun things
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If you donât mind Iâd like to offer some advice based on my own experience. Just to warn you, itâs not a list of super fun things
Ok so youâre good with Unity or Godot or Phaser etc.
But itâs the things around that which will improve your chances of landing work.
If you donât already, set up git for your own game youâre working on right now. Itâs industry standard, youâll be expected to know how to use it.
But itâs the things around that which will improve your chances of landing work.
If you donât already, set up git for your own game youâre working on right now. Itâs industry standard, youâll be expected to know how to use it.
Be confident in finding your way around GitHub and BitBucket.
Do you use Trello or Jira for your task management? Have a practise with both.
Can you extract images from layers in a PSD, set up Texture Packer to export your sprite sheets?
Do you use Trello or Jira for your task management? Have a practise with both.
Can you extract images from layers in a PSD, set up Texture Packer to export your sprite sheets?
Luckily aside from Photoshop, you can use all these for free.
Also the good news is you donât need to be an expert in any of these (Iâm so not
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Also the good news is you donât need to be an expert in any of these (Iâm so not
I hope this has been some help, and please feel free to ask questions.
Also please donât see it as yet another barrier to getting the job you want. Yes itâs more to learn, but no one is expecting more than being able to do the basics, anything beyond that is for stack overflow
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Also please donât see it as yet another barrier to getting the job you want. Yes itâs more to learn, but no one is expecting more than being able to do the basics, anything beyond that is for stack overflow