10 PROVEN Ways To Get Into The Gaming Industry

4. Seek Out Game Jams (Dare To Be Digital)

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Originally encompassing just Dundee, but growing to include many international students, Dare To Be Digital is a student-centric game jam on steroids. As a voluntary team of four to six students, you’ll take around six weeks of your own free time to create a playable game prototype, whereupon those prototypes will be pitted against one another in a brutal fight to the death.

Well, maybe not that dramatic, but they’ll be judged, and some will be chosen as overall winners, with the chance of winning a BAFTA (seriously, you could own one of those creepy golden Prometheus masks!).

Whilst other similar programs have opened up since, Dare To Be Digital remains the original and most prolific of the options, and many Dare-involved students are considered for industry jobs through hard work and initiative.

A lot of my peers started off with Dare To Be Digital.

And now I’ve got that Gorillaz song stuck in my head. Fantastic.

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Hiya, you lot! I'm Tommy, a 39-year-old game developer from Scotland - I live on the East coast in an adorable beachside village. I've worked on Need for Speed, Cake Bash, Tom Clancy's The Division, Driver San Francisco, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, Kameo 2 and much more. I enjoy a pun and, of course, suffer fools gladly! Join me on Twitter at @TotoMimoTweets for more opinion diarrhoea.