10 PROVEN Ways To Get Into The Gaming Industry

10. Maths & English (Seriously)

As my old maths teacher once said, “students are normally good at English, or maths, but not both, because those people are psychopaths”.

Depending on the role you’re looking into, chances are you’ll need at least one of these two, daily.

For example, you’d probably expect the programming roles to need a high degree of mathematical knowledge, but there are also ones like tech art which require you to be able to make calculations for things like particle creation, or even for making some more complex shaders.

Other roles, like designers and QA, require a high level of communication and documentation skills - for the former, it’s likely expected that you spend a huge amount of your time writing up documents, but some graduates I’ve spoken to were quite surprised to hear how much time a QA member spends in software like Excel, JIRA, or even Microsoft Word (hint: it’s a lot).

If you’re proficient at maths and/or English, you might have more in your pocket than you think.

I have a Bubbaloo and forty-six pence in mine.