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Career Guide

The Video Game industry is an exciting place to work. There are a wide variety of career opportunities available with a vast array of skills needed, ranging from artists, programmers, marketers, project management, community managers and finance.

This page provides a handy guide to some of the best resources available to help you understand what jobs are out there and gives advice about how to get there!

Into Games

This is a great resource for any young person wanting to find out about the varied careers available in the Games Industry and what qualifications and routes you need to undertake to get there. With over 70 different job roles featured it really does show there is a career in games for everyone.

intogames.org

Entry Level Skills Hub

A collaborative platform designed to offer detailed insight into various entry-level roles in the games industry.

entrylevel.games

Prospects

Explore Gaming job profiles.

prospects.ac.uk

Ukie – Digital Schoolhouse

Ukie is the trade body for the games and interactive entertainment industry in the UK. Their Digital Schoolhouse YouTube channel is full of 1 minute mentor spotlights from different people within the games.

youtube.com/@DigitalSchoolhouse

Remastered

This site offers a lot of real life example of creators breaking into the industry across all disciplines.

join.mastered.com/3d-careers

Interactive Futures

Our local games studios have contributed lots of content
through this local event over the years and where possible we have made it available through our youtube channel video page – we highly recommend ‘The Range Careers Available in Games’.

youtube.com/@siliconspa

Useful Resources

Programming Resources

Additional good websites for programming.

github.com

discord.com

Artist & Design Resources

Additional good websites for Art & Design

www.artstation.com is a good resource for portfolios and reviewing other artists’ work.

discord.com

BAFTA – Young Games Designers

Are you thinking about making games when you leave school? Do you have a great game idea you want to share? Then BAFTA’s Young Game Designers is for you!

ygd.bafta.org/ygd-resources-helping-you-make-a-winning-entry

Work Experience and Placements

Work experience in the games sector is tricky. Due to the need to protect our intellectual property its not always possible for us to offer short term work placements to students. We are working on how we can get better or offer alternative options but we are not quite there yet.

UKIE Education

Empowers the next generation of video games talent through a programme of initiatives that bring young people together with industry, including Digital Schoolhouse.

youtube.com/watch?v=kROKYXUsz3E&t=4s
ukie.org.uk/ukie-education

Apprenticeships

Don’t forget to look out for National Apprenticeship Week, early in 2025. Also look at studios and links similar to BBC and the Sumo Digital Academy.

bbc.co.uk/apprenticehub

sumo-academy.com

Industry News

Good sources of Games industry news and to keep up with the latest developments visit ukie.org.uk/news, linkedin.com/newsletters and gamesindustry.biz.

It’s also good to get involved in local groups and event such as The Game Dev Group meetup.com/TheGameDevGroup

For Parents

We understand its difficult to stay up to speed and to know how to let you child play games safely but don’t worry there are resources for you too.

Ask About Games is a decade-long campaign powered by Ukie, that teaches parents about age ratings, video games and parental controls.

Check it out askaboutgames.com