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Discover Advanced 3D Texturing and Sculpting Techniques with Del Walker

Elevate your storytelling skills with expert guidance from a seasoned narrative designer and scriptwriter with over 14 years of experience across the video game and entertainment industries, including work on major titles like FABLE, League of Legends, and her own PlayStation IP.

In this course, you'll master the mindset of a Lead Narrative Designer, craft unforgettable characters, and develop standout portfolio pieces from character bios and dialogue triggers to cinematic scenes and location descriptions. Whether you're just starting out or expanding your existing portfolio, this course will equip you with the confidence and skills to excel in the industry.

Narrative Design: Level Up Your Storytelling Skills with Kim MacAskill

Create captivating game worlds and characters with Anna Hollinrake, former lead artist on Fall Guys, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, and studio founder.

In this course, you'll design a unique waterfront game world, developing both its environment and characters while mastering essential techniques and balancing real-world constraints. Join today to learn how to build cohesive game concepts through storytelling, crafting compelling characters and environments that work together to bring your world to life.


Bring a Waterfront Game World to Life with Anna Hollinrake

Set clear steps for your indie studio journey with Rami Ismail, co-founder of the influential Dutch indie studio Vlambeer, best known for Super Crate Box, Ridiculous Fishing, and Nuclear Throne, and an award-winning mentor to game developers worldwide.

In this course, you’ll build a step-by-step action plan to make your indie studio pitch-ready for publishers and funding opportunities. Covering everything from pitching and prototyping to project planning and defining your studio’s unique vision, you’ll gain hands-on guidance and practical exercises to craft a compelling game pitch, structure your production process, and establish a strong foundation. Join today to develop a clear roadmap with an industry expert, turning your ideas into a strategic path to success.

Setting Up An Indie Studio with Rami Ismail

Animators need a keen eye for movement, timing, and detail, along with creativity and a passion for storytelling through motion. Animation plays a crucial role during the production phase, translating concepts into lifelike or stylized motions. If you enjoy bringing characters and worlds to life, this role lets you shape the emotional tone of the game.


This hub page features animation job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of animators at various stages of their careers.

Portfolio Live: Animation: Ross Thomas Everson

Animation: Industry Standard Animation Tools, What Are They and How to Master Them

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I love the magic of giving personality and emotion to a character and seeing them on screen and even interacting with them.

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Animation breathes life into games by creating dynamic, believable movements for characters, creatures, and objects, making the game world feel immersive and engaging.

Specialisms include Gameplay Animator, Cinematics, Technical Animator, Motion Capture and more.

Animation

Artists need strong visual creativity, an understanding of design principles, and proficiency in tools like 3D modelling or illustration software. Art is vital from early concept development to the final game, establishing the look and feel of the entire experience. If you're passionate about creating stunning visuals, this role shapes the game's world.


This hub page features art job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of artists at various stages of their careers.

Art: Worldbuilding 2D Concept Art with Anna Hollinrake

Art: 2D Character Design with Lucy Kyriakidou

Art: Concept Art, What is it, how do I do it?

The skills you need for this role are 3D modelling, texturing, a good artistic eye, art fundamentals (composition, colour theory, etc), teamwork, communication, a good work ethic and a general interest in video games.

Art defines the visual identity of a game, crafting everything from characters to environments, creating the aesthetic that shapes the player's experience and supports the game's narrative.

Environment Artist, Character Artist, Technical Artist, UI Artist and more.

Audio professionals must have a strong ear for sound, creativity in audio design, and a passion for music and storytelling through soundscapes. Audio is woven into every phase of development, from concept to post-production, enhancing the emotional and atmospheric depth of the game. If you love creating immersive audio experiences, this role is essential.


This hub page features audio job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of audio professionals at various stages of their careers.

Audio: SFX, Music and Dialogue how to work with all three with Greg Lester

Audio: Sound Design, on a budget

An Introduction to Game Audio Design by Greg Lester

I work on anything that makes a sound in the game. Anything you hear such as when you swing a sword, when a character speaks to you, when music is playing or when you click a something and it goes 'ping', I create those sounds and I tell the game how and when to play them.

Audio enhances a game's atmosphere through sound design, music, and voice acting, playing a crucial role in building emotional impact and player immersion.

Audio

Community and marketing experts need strong communication skills, creativity in campaign strategies, and a passion for connecting with players. These roles are vital before, during, and after a game’s launch, helping to build excitement and foster a loyal player base. If you enjoy engaging with audiences and promoting great content, this is your place.


This hub page features community and marketing job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of community managers and marketers at various stages of their careers.

How to get a job in Games Marketing and Community Building | Into Games Career Fair

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Learn more about game marketing with Katherine

It's great to be the "face" of gaming. It's a lot of work, but it's really satisfying when someone tells you how much a game you worked on changed their life.

Community and marketing drive player engagement and game visibility, building and sustaining a loyal fanbase through communication, campaigns, and feedback-driven strategies.

Community and Marketing

Game designers must have a strong sense of creativity, analytical thinking, and an understanding of player psychology. Designers work throughout the development cycle, shaping the core mechanics, systems, and player experience. If you love planning how games work and creating engaging interactions, this role lets you influence the heart of gameplay.


This hub page features design job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of game designers at various stages of their careers.

Level up your Level Design with Oliver William Walker   Q&A Session

Game theory  Its impact on game design and strategy Feat  Jack Murrell

Level Design  Game theory basics, aiming to create engaging and balanced levels

It’s hard to spend your time working closely on a game and still be able to take a step back and figure out if it’s fun and what could be improved. You have to be able to decide whether an idea is worth persevering with or whether you need to change direction, sometimes multiple times in a week (or day!)

Design is at the heart of creating gameplay, responsible for shaping game mechanics, levels, systems, and player interactions to ensure a compelling and balanced experience.

Design

Producers and operations experts need strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills, with a passion for managing complex projects and teams. They are involved in every phase of game development, ensuring schedules, budgets, and resources align. If you enjoy coordinating efforts and solving logistical challenges, this role drives the development process.


This hub page features production and operations job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of producers and operations managers at various stages of their careers.

How to get a job in Games Production | Into Games Career Fair 2021

Production  Project Management terminology

Production: Is everything Agile  When to and not to use AGILE

Production tips and advice from the Pros

I love being able to work with all the different teams in the company. There's always a lot to learn from different areas. It's also great to be part of the projects from the beginning - it's rewarding to see the project come to life and grow, as well as the team and myself, we're also developing together to make the best product possible. 

Production and operations ensure the game development process runs efficiently, managing teams, schedules, and resources to keep projects on track and within budget.

Production and Operations

A successful programmer needs strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a passion for logical thinking and technology. Programming is essential throughout the entire development process, from prototyping to final release, ensuring everything works as intended. If you love coding and solving complex technical challenges, this role is at the heart of game creation.


This hub page features programming job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of programmers at various stages of their careers.

Find out more about becoming a Games Programmer with Into Games

Breaking into Games Programming with Pavle Mihajlovic

Programming: Roles & Applications of Computer Science for Game Development

Programming  Engine concepts and learning the language

Programming Engine Concepts

When I see players enjoying the game I spent long and hard making, it makes it all worth while. But I think the most rewarding thing is feeling like I'm working with other developers who love their craft.

What’s the latest?

Programming is the backbone of game development, responsible for writing and optimizing the code that powers gameplay, systems, and visuals, ensuring the game runs smoothly across platforms.

Gameplay Programmer, Tools Engineer, AI Programmer, Graphics Programmer and more.

Programming

QA testers need a keen eye for detail, patience, and a passion for ensuring high-quality player experiences. QA is involved throughout the development process, finding and documenting bugs and performance issues before release. If you love problem-solving and ensuring games are polished, this role is critical to delivering a flawless final product.


This hub page features QA job role descriptions, links to our learning content, and access to our online community, where you can continue your journey and connect with thousands of QA testers at various stages of their career.

Quality Assurance: Standard QA processes tailored for bug investigations

Quality Assurance: Tools of the trade

Finding bugs is just the start though. They need to be logged, prioritised and put in front of the right people for fixing. Once fixed they then need retesting to make sure it works and that the fix hasn’t broken anything else in the game.

QA ensures the final product is polished and playable by rigorously testing for bugs, performance issues, and other potential problems, maintaining quality standards before release.

Quality Assurance

Explore built-in tools in game engines, such as animators and behavior trees, to streamline development and enhance game functionality.

Technical Design: Engine built-in tools like animator or behaviour trees

Discover effective communication strategies, including active listening, regular check-ins, and clear messaging, to enhance team coordination and project success.

Production: Effective Communication Strategies for Game Development

Mark will dig into writing for smaller projects.

Narrative Design: Small Games, Big Stories - Mark Ginbey

The UK Games Studio, RARE, has five internship positions open for application. This event is a panel discussion followed by an exclusive Q&A event. Your opportunity to learn more about the studio, the internship roles and how best to apply!

For the past three years RARE has successfully hired from individuals who attended the We're Hiring event! This event is truly the best way to help your chances of working there! Sign up via the Luma page asap to secure your spot.

RARE - We're Hiring 2024

Learn how to tailor audio design to fit different game genres, creating immersive and cohesive soundscapes that enhance the gaming experience.

Audio: Fitting the genre. Making your audio enhance the game world.

​​Learn from one of the most talented writers in the industry!

The Horror and Comedy of games writing with Kim MacAskill!

Waypoint London Launch

This is our report on the state of social mobility in the UK games sector and what we can do about it.

Report: Social Mobility in the UK Games sector 2024

See how Into Games has supported Ayo in a role in games.

Superstar Spotlight: Ayotunde Norman-Williams

Devolver Digital sponsors 200 free WASD tickets for low-income future devs

Talks, workshops and panels to help you learn everything you need to know to build a career in games.

Games in the City Festival hits Staffordshire University on 11-15th December!

An exciting 12 month partnership to help create better to help create a more Diverse UK Video Games Industry

Into Games Partners with Staffordshire University London

Into Games are delighted to announce a wonderful arrival to our family of Partners - the brilliant folks at Sharkmob London are joining as Into Games Industry Partners for 2023!

Sharkmob are joining as Into Games Industry Partners

How to Send your Game Jam Performance through the Roof with Anything World

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Production Workplace Training

Discover Advanced 3D Texturing and Sculpting Techniques with Del Walker

Narrative Design: Level Up Your Storytelling Skills with Kim MacAskill

Bring a Waterfront Game World to Life with Anna Hollinrake

Setting Up An Indie Studio with Rami Ismail

Ayotunde Norman-Williams

Join our free skills events every week

Technical Design: Engine built-in tools like animator or behaviour trees

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Production: Effective Communication Strategies for Game Development

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Narrative Design: Small Games, Big Stories - Mark Ginbey

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RARE - We're Hiring 2024

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Audio: Fitting the genre. Making your audio enhance the game world.

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The Horror and Comedy of games writing with Kim MacAskill!

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What’s the latest?

Waypoint London Launch

Report: Social Mobility in the UK Games sector 2024

Superstar Spotlight: Ayotunde Norman-Williams

Devolver Digital sponsors 200 free WASD tickets for low-income future devs

Games in the City Festival hits Staffordshire University on 11-15th December!

Into Games Partners with Staffordshire University London

Sharkmob are joining as Into Games Industry Partners

How to Send your Game Jam Performance through the Roof with Anything World

Our Impact

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