Saturday, 19 October 2013

Jobs, what I'm aiming for.

I've taken the time over the past two years to look at the job market and see what I'd be best suited to. At first I looked at work as a 3D Artist, but came to realize that this itself is a highly competitive market. I believe that with programming, I have a certain knack; and I find it fulfilling to solve a problem and create something artistic with it in a different way. So, with my dissertation in swing, here are the Jobs I'll be looking to apply for; using my final artefact as a demonstration of my skills.

Items highlighted in Orange are the things that I have some experience in, those in Red depict things that my dissertation will help me gain experience with.

Junior Games Developer (Central London, 25k Per Annum)

Essential: Computer Science or Computer Games Degree
Experience: UNITY/UNITY 3D, C# (C#), SQL, JAVA (JAVA), FLASH
Description: This role primarily comprises coding the front-end client for games you will need to get involved at every stage of game development from inception to production.


Graduate Games Programmer (Brighton, 18 - 22k Per Annum)

Essential: Computer Science or Computer Games Degree
Experience: C# (C#), JavaScript (JavaScript), C++ or LUA with an interest or passion to work in the Games Industry.
Description: You will be programming key elements of the game-play, user interface and interaction systems, writing associated libraries for core mechanics, and be a custodian for game balancing, tweaking and fine tuning.


Unity Games Developer (Cirencester, Negotiable)

Essential: Evidence of previous games made in Unity, preferably a few of your own.
Experience:  C# (C#), Java (Java), Unity 3D.
Description: We need you to be intimately familiar with the Unity development environment, C# (C#) scripting and know how to do 2D games and user interfaces within Unity.


This is a small example of the many jobs out there, they are varied and some require more experience than others; I have no doubt I'll be able to gain employment once graduated, at the very least I will gain valuable interview experience.

1 comment:

  1. Ok Chris. What we be good here is to highlight those skills you have some experience of / no experience of etc - perhaps color coded. You can then identify what you think your dissertation piece will focus on. This will add clarity to the blog post.

    You look like you are in a position to put together a draft proposal for the dissertation, please send one to me as soon as you are ready and i can give you some feedback on it prior to submission.

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