This document discusses careers in game development, including programmer, artist, designer, and producer. It provides advice for each role such as coding extensively and collaborating with others for programmers, focusing on skills and building a portfolio for artists, learning about all aspects of game development and doing many game jams for designers, and learning project management and problem solving for producers. The document recommends estimating games and studying post-mortems to better understand the process of making games.

1. Game Development Careers
Past, Present, and Future
Jesse Schell (@jesseschell)

19. Game Industry Careers
•Programmer
•Artist
•Designer
•Producer

20. Game Programmer
• Code A LOT
• Code on a team
• Do Game Jams, to learn rapid
prototyping
• Finish things, to learn software
engineering
• Build a portfolio of games and
demos

21. Game Artist
• Focus on classic skills
• Make beautiful things
• Get good at fast sketches
• Learn to collaborate with
programmers
• Build a portfolio

22. Game Designer
• Learn about everything
• Write about games constantly
• Design a lot of games
• Do as many game jams as you can
• Work with artists and
programmers

23. Game Producer
• Learn about project management
• Learn about Agile
• Become a wizard of documents
• Help teams solve problems
• Learn how games are made –
estimate every game you play
• Study post-mortems
• Build a portfolio

31. Thanks!
Slides: jesseschell.com
Twitter: @jesseschell
Email: jesse@schellgames.com