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- Senior Games Designer at Kawlee
- there is a jump from university to job, expect critique
- why are you doing things, justify
- talking and presentations become easier
- build up trust and rapport
- advertising
- community managers (discord, steam, reddit)
- indies can be harder to get into
- browser games are coming back
- boardgames
- transferable skills, start in one thing and move into another
- QA
- roles can crossover
- non-games jobs skills are also useful and transferable
- important to have teamwork experience
- good to know basic code, get into engine etc
- have a portfolio ready
PORTFOLIO
- put university work in work portfolio
- self-lead projects
- design unmade games
- games jams
- CV, be honest, be relevant, don’t care about GCSEs, A-Levels are fine but they mostly care about a degree
- excel can be important in design
- don’t make it too long
- bullet points
- don’t put photo on it
INTERVIEW
- show passion
- see past the layers, roles specific info, why, add why
- why did something go wrong, how did you deal with it
- a games company doesn’t tend to be super professional, semi-professional clothes etc
- research the company – recent games, play one, what kind of games, have some questions about the company (culture, learning opportunities)
- fake it until you make it
- economy designer, balancing fictional currency and microtransactions
- spreadsheets to balance and simulate the economy
- free-to-play with in-app purchases
- subscriptions
- publishing
- teaching/training in new graduate job roles
- LinkedIn learning
- stand out with your portfolio (what you did and why)
- could ask in interview about diversity etc
- FMP
- most interviews will give a pre-interview test, self-timed
- stand-ups 2-3 times a week
- Slack
- AB testing
- you can learn an engine, unless you are a programmer, an interviewer won’t care what engine you used in a portfolio
- what can realistically be done in the time you have
- things always take longer than you think
- do something you are excited about
- mobile games is a massive industry with a lot of variety