Video Game jobs are the fastest growing career segment of the entertainment industry. If you want to ‘break into entertainment', a great place to start is by applying to Video Game positions.
Background
Although you might not realize it, the video game industry is, by far, the largest segment of the entertainment market. In the past few years, Video Game revenues are actually larger than the Film, Sports, and Music segments combined.
For many people who are interested in working in entertainment, video games are generally overlooked as a career path. This is unfortunate because nearly every job you can think of in media has a corresponding position within the video game sector - it's not just for IT programmers and game testers. There are tens of thousands of entertainment careers in the video game sector in film production, animation, VFX, post production, writing, music scoring, marketing, creative development, finance, human resources and...even acting! If you ultimately want to work in another segment of entertainment, you can still start by applying to video game careers and use that experience as a springboard to other sectors like Film, TV, Music, or Sports.
Having video game experience on your resume has become a desired commodity in other segments of the entertainment industry. Video game companies are often the first users of new technologies that will be used everywhere. For instance, Epic Games's Unreal Engine, once used only to develop Triple-A video games, has now become the defacto standard platform for TV and Film Virtual Productions like HBO's 'Westworld'. And this skill overlap will only grow as audiences demand more immersion, realism, and interaction from their entertainment media.
What Companies are the Top Video Game Employers?
- Epic Games
- Valve Corporation
- Riot Games
- Electronic Arts (EA)
- Activision Blizzard
- Sony Computer Entertainment
- Nintendo
- Mojang
- Rockstar Games
- Take-Two Interactive (T2)
- Bungie
- Naughty Dog
What Types of Jobs Are There In the Video Game Industry?
- Game Designer
- Game Producer
- Game Publisher
- Level Designer
- UX Designer
- User Interface Artist
- Environment Artist
- Texture Artist
- Software Developer
- Engine Programmer
- Animator
- Technical Animator
- Writer
- Music Composer
- Sound Designer
- Audio Engineer
- Video Game Tester
- Quality Assurance (QA) Tester
- Marketing Manager
- Community Manager
