Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
You can do research on your own, too. Gaming companies often have infor-
mation about jobs on their websites. Quite a few other websites host information
about available jobs for entry-level work, including these:
Game Industry Grunts:
Get In Media jobs in the entertainment industry:
www.getinmedia.com
GameJobs:
www.gamejobs.com
.gdmag.com
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Other sites to review for information about jobs and internships and the state
of industry are these:
Game Developers Conference (GDC):
www.gdconf.com
Association for Computing Machinery:
www.acm.org
Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques (SIGGRAPH):
www.siggraph.org
Game Developers:
www.gamedev.net
Game Artist Forums:
www.game-artist.net
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Open-source sites are another resource for job seekers. Often, small teams
of people working with Open GL are making independent projects and look-
ing for crew members. OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a royalty-free
application programming interface (API) provided by the Khronos Group.
Open-source sites include these:
Crystal Space:
www.crystalspace3d.org
OpenGL:
www.opengl.org
It's good to review what the best-selling games are (successful companies are
more likely to have jobs available) and also what the average salaries are in the
industry. The following site contains some of that information:
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