Lessons Learned From 100 FAILED Game Dev Job Interviews

[@awesometuts]

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[@RedefineGamedev]

Thank you for having me on the channel as well! I hope that my experiences will help other people in getting jobs in gamedev.

[@UnderfundedScientist]

Thank you for coming here to give us your insight

[@RedefineGamedev]

@@UnderfundedScientist glad you found it helpful!

[@MiniatureGiantsGameDev]

Nice work Adrian!

[@RedefineGamedev]

@@MiniatureGiantsGameDev Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

[@emmanuelhenne]

Great advice: apply at mid to large companies, this is no bullshit, it is really, really important. I worked at smaller studios in the beginning, and boy were those sweatshops. The bonding in the team is sometimes tighter, but pressure and workload burn You out quickly. Also, smaller studios often have less experience directing employees, which adds to confusion, crunch and stress.

[@xanaramus]

Thats not true at all. That depends on companies and people that you work with. If you are treated like shit, its doesnt matter if company is small or big.

[@publicalias8172]

Saying it's not true "at all" is complete bullshit and wishful thinking at best. Smaller studios have more pressure, this is a FACT. @@xanaramus

[@InexperiencedDeveloper]

Good points, having senior developers to hold your hand through problems seems so invaluable

[@denizorsel1029]

I am sorry to break it to all but life literally doesn't work the way where one could prevail with lots of passion, hard work and persistence. Don't get me wrong . You need all those just to stand a chance but nothing is guaranteed. Yet good fortune usually arrives in a very unexpected manner and it reveals itself slowly so that one acknowledges that it is a good bet, only later.

[@germanslice]

I just well went ahead and started making my own game instead of waiting around for some company since the worlds in trouble already so we don't know how long those companies will be around because things are changing in the world, So I just started writing my own game and characters instead without any company's help. The coding part was the hardest......The companies may have all the right people to build the game, but they want to do everything on their own terms. with their own rules. and someone else's timetable.

[@denizorsel1029]

@@germanslice This is exactly how I went about it as well. I even started my company knowing I won't make any income but it keeps me in check nonetheless. Just released my first game and now working on a bigger project. Honestly, hell with any company! If we have a story tell and if this is the way we want to express ourselves who is there to stay between us and our will?! Good luck with your projects!

[@germanslice]

@@denizorsel1029 I already started building my game Tesseract Prime Offworlds, filled it up with some hilarious dialog and created the weirdest of characters.... i got the main basic dialog working, but the menu branching choices that go with the dialog is what I need to get put next in Unreal Engine which might not be easy as I dunno how to code that.. The game first all started off in notepad. Game has more than one planet and system in it.

[@mudumbiarun9595]

Guys a big hello to all of you ive landed in a game development job in todquest gaming company as a unity game developer on 31st december and a big thanks to awesome tuts for all the tutorials and thanks to my teacher fahir my pay is decent as you can expect in lockdown

[@dumbguy1073]

A very useful video hope this video gets reached by every game dev🤞

[@gamedevstanislove]

Great interview! Thanks for making this.

[@JohnofFinland291]

It's surprising to learn how challenging job hunting can be in the game development market. This video was truly informative and interesting. 👌

[@awesometuts]

the problem is that most game developers, and programmers in general, only focus on learning the skills, which is great you need skills, but they ignore all other things that come with it so you can get a job. Because on the job interview you need to present your programming skills, now you can be the best programmer in the world, but if you have bad presentation skills you'll fail the interview. On the other hand, someone who is less of a programmer than you, but has better presentation skills he'll be able to convince the people on the interview to hire him. Simple as that.

[@jeffreyokun2355]

It's disgusting what the industry has become. Literally getting free mobile game ideas from people dedicating their time in order to be even considered for a vacancy. And imagine what happens if you go through the same process with 20 positions, you've gone through developing 20 mobile game projects without any success for yourself, but the company may win a great idea for further development.. Just start an indie studio, the AAA companies don't deserve it. The management never even respect their talent but force you to degrade your artistic skill due to mismanagement and monetization. Your portfolio should be enough and a one on one interview as it used to be. Using 3rd party companies to do screening for you, hr and then tests with multiple rounds is wasting money and talent! Common sense and proof of your skill has become a distant memory of a time gone by. We live in a time of decadence and social media status determining your social hierarchy. My friends from the time of the demo scene in the 80-90s have all become experts in the industry because they were in a time before of this BS, if they tried to break in now, they would not even get a chance. Yet these guys are who built up the industry to where it's today.

[@uchihai_a_h4871]

True, they are just playing monopoly with us. Soon indie games will screw them up. I know

[@TheSteveTheDragon]

As an older person, I'm sure companies are no longer interested in hiring me and I'm naturallly no longer interested in going out of my way to jump through hoops so my focus right now is just to get good enough to make some decent self-published games.

[@aluckyshot]

Haha ya you and me both, the chances of getting an actual job when older is basically 0.

[@Aye_Sid]

Thanks for the awesome video sir. As a beginner it is very helpful..😀👍🏻

[@branidev]

This is great more of these interviews ;)

[@nag0074]

I applied for so many game development jobs. But I did not get even one interview opportunity.....

[@xanaramus]

Can you share you resume, or skills that you have? Im collecting info about people who cant find the job?

[@nag0074]

@@xanaramus can you give me your email id? I will share it to you

[@xanaramus]

@@nag0074 [e-mail]

[@asakumaris5062]

Can you please a make tutorial of making a farming game in unity

[@anilkumarukl2965]

yes he is right can you please please make a tutorial on making a farming game and please don't make it a big insted make it a series with many short videos

[@asakumaris5062]

@@anilkumarukl2965 yes like your 3d robot shooter game series

[@asakumaris5062]

In unity engine please

[@Cd5ssmffan]

💀

[@mrmiyagi6940]

Let's say I have great portfolio with high 3d skills but I have no field experience how my cv should look like if am working in different field.

[@doumbagames7828]

Hi do you guys mind trying my new released game “Escort the Sheep” in android? thanks

[@doumbagames7828]

This is an offline 3D puzzle game that has a decent difficulty. My motivation is to help my parents preparing my college money (Iwill go to college in 6 months). Dont forget to rate, leave some feedbacks, and share thanks...

[@squashysquashyt3326]

Doumba Games Wow you developed such a nice game!!

[@mudumbiarun9595]

Be motivated and stay focused dont get negative and try hard and self motivate yourself with yoga meditation and friendly chats and stay connected and solve problems and sooner or later you will land into your dream gaming job and read think big and positive books to enhance your confidence and be at your highest confidence level while attending the interview as the interviews are google meet oriented you maintain good appearance with nice shave and neat hair style and answer the questions with a confident tone

[@gut__]

This is gold

[@lionliing.gamedev]

great job

[@mudumbiarun9595]

Help others in lockdown financially if you are sound so that god will help you back like me i served food for daily wage workers here in india not having food and helped some people financially which has helped me get god blessings and my hard work in game development projects and game development interviews i studied in youtube and in google and also some youtube channels helped me land in my dream job always stay connected to people and start sharing the problems you have and share the problems in your game development journey and apply constantly to tons of jobs and prepare everything in unity and you will land in the job

[@claireglory]

let me see his portfolio

[@UnderfundedScientist]

As always love the content. Keep up the great work. Side note . If anyone is interested , I have a few short clips posted of a project I would love feedback on .

[@SagarKumar-fx4ew]

First view 😂😂