Make Your First Move, With These Stories:
- Opportunities in Game Development
- How Game Companies Hire
- Back-End Specialties are Critical to Online Games
- Skills You'll Need
- Corporate Gamification Opens Up New Jobs
For College Students:
Special Report: Job Opportunities in Games
Games today are as slick as movies, sometimes as expensive to produce and worth big money, some earning hundreds of millions dollars. Meantime, the technology behind them is both sophisticated and powerful. Twenty years ago, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation had aliens capture the Enterprise through an addictive computer game. Far-fetched? Now it seems prophetic. The business offers cutting-edge opportunities and very often good money. So how do you break in? As they say, knowledge is power. So we've put together a package of background, trends and tips designed to help you find the job you want — and get hired to do it.
