This Thursday, we had a careers talk with Laia Auge Poch, a UoS Careers Consultant with over 20 years of experience, on the future of our careers in Game Design. Before I started, I had a look at what types of careers are available in games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where am I in my game planning career?<\/p>\n\n\n I feel like I am at the planning stage, here’s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “One of the most difficult tasks G. Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and We utilised the MyPathways tool on the Southampton Careers app, where we took a quiz to identify our best skills, allowing us to look for jobs that reflect our skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evaluation of the skills quiz<\/strong>: I thought the quiz was okay, but it didn’t feel very helpful in what I want to do in games. The skills seemed more oriented to analytics-based subjects, which Game Design only has a little bit of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We looked at this Case study of an internship from Tencent Games and analysed what skills we needed for the job. I highlighted all the skills identified.<\/p>\n\n\n Evaluation of the Case Study: It was interesting to look at and good for dissecting the amount of skills you need in Games Careers, but also not relevant to my ideal career. I think it’s still good to look at things you don’t particularly want to go into, to get a better sense of what you want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here were some useful final tips that Laia gave us, and I expanded on each one as a reminder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\nArtistic Games Careers<\/strong><\/td> Technical Games Careers<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 3D Game Artist<\/td> Game Designer<\/td><\/tr> 2D Game Artist<\/td> Games Programmer<\/td><\/tr> Texture Artist<\/td> Games Journalist<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> Games Producer<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> UX\/UI Designer<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/image-5.png\")
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much others may despise it, is
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