A job for me?
The games industry has pretty much exploded over the past decade. Exciting developments in the ever-changing world of tech have made games more advanced than ever before. What's more, a rise in mobile gaming is creating a whole load of new and exciting jobs that didn鈥檛 even exist five years ago.
Whether you鈥檙e a Candy Crush queen, a COD fanatic, or you always find yourself thinking up new worlds, fantasy lands and characters, Radio 1鈥檚 gaming experts Dan and Phil are here to delve into the industry and help you explore whether there鈥檚 a job in there for you.
Final Fact-asy
The video games industry in facts (statistics true as of 2015).
Emo goose?
Gaming gurus Dan and Phil are hyped about the range of careers in the gaming industry right now. Especially for an emo goose鈥
Are gaming jobs just for coders?
Dan and Phil interview
Dan: I think the most exciting thing about the gaming industry right now is how it is exploding ingrowth because of mobile phones. Literally everyone is gamer! On Facebook, on their phones, on their computers, for every single object there鈥檚 probably a way to game it. You think 鈥極h I like gaming but I don鈥檛 know what I鈥檇 do鈥 - there鈥檚 SO many things to do.
Phil: There are so many jobs!
Dan: There鈥檚 art, there鈥檚 programming, there鈥檚 general manager and design鈥
Phil: Monster creator! That鈥檚 a good one.
Dan: I鈥檇 say that comes under design, and programming, and art.
Phil: You don鈥檛 even have to be a computer programmer because they have creative aspects. Like some people just draw and design the monsters; it鈥檚 about using the artistic talent rather than the computer talent.
Dan: The gaming industry has never been larger and more desperate for people to come in with ideas.
Phil: We鈥檝e got a friend that went looking for a job and he loves computer and he鈥檚 ended up as a computer console Twitter guy who just tweets about games all day so it鈥檚 just like a dream.
Dan: Dream life!
Phil: I did a voice of an emo goose in an iPhone app鈥
[Phil does impression of emo goose]
Dan: Voice acting! Got an acting talent, you can be an emo goose!
[Phil does impression of emo goose]
Dan: We also have a friend who just really loved games and he started running a blog and then it turned into a review site where he reviewed Xbox games and then he got hired by official Xbox Magazine.
Phil: My advice for getting into the gaming industry, first of all is to play lots of games.
Dan: Think of the games that you love the most, look at those credits, see what all the different jobs are. Think about what your skillsets. What do you enjoy doing the most in school? Are you a computing kind of person? Are you a talking kind of person? Then think, 鈥楬ey, I want to do that for my favourite video game!鈥 Start doing it as a hobby, look up the people that have done it on the internet. And never stop dreaming!
Phil: That was a bit cheesy at the end there Dan.
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