Would you like a highly trained member of staff, matched to your studios needs with their wages fully paid to help you build your game for up to three months? The Into Games Boost programme is launching this year in multiple UK regions to help grow studios productivity and create a more socioeconomically diverse industry.

The programme will find the best graduate and masters level game talent from low-income and working-class backgrounds and pay the wages of that talent for your studio to take them on and give them their first industry role.

Providing these first essential steps to entry-level talent has been proven to support both career seeker and employer and with Boost, we can super charge regional game development while creating a fairer pathway into the sector.  

We are currently looking for studios who want to express an initial interest in this programme when it launches in mid 2025. By signing up, you will be first in line to access the programme and the first wave of placements.

The form takes less than 1 minute to fill out and is accessible here.

You will be under no obligation to take part by signing up as part of this EOI and expressions of Interest will close on the 28th February, 2025.   

Eligibility

Your studio/organisation must: 

• Have games development or games promotion/marketing/publishing as your primary form of work/income
• Be a registered entity and visible on companies house. 
• Be able to provide real work on an active game development project 
• Be using PAYE to pay staff 
• Be able to engage with Into Games on a monthly basis to briefly update on participants status 

Programme Background 

This programme was created after the launch of the Difficulty Level report in 2024, a large scale research piece outlining the barriers and challenges for those from under resourced backgrounds entering the games sector. 

The report highlighted the high number of students from these backgrounds graduating university level courses who are being underutilised and finding difficulty in gaining work. This opportunity gap ensures that while we have a strong pipeline of people from these backgrounds who want to work in games, we are failing to provide them with proper routes into work.   

This programme sets out to encourage encouraging a high-skills economy, build local games clusters capacity and create real opportunity for social mobility.   

Sign your studio up today.