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Game Developer 2010 Career Guide Released

By james_fudge

Game Developer Magazine's third annual Game Career Guide is now available as a digital download (PDF) and in a web-readable format. Given that even the game industry is, at least in some small measure, a part of the national 10 percent unemployment rolls, a Game Career Guide probably can't hurt. There's also some great advice for those individuals who want to get into the business - in fact, the "2010 issue promises a special focus on clear methods to affordably start making games." The guide also includes articles about getting started with development tools like Flash and Game Maker by indie creators Adam Saltsman and Jessie Venbrux.

Other stuff found in the guide includes a postmortem of the DigiPen student game Igneous, what some indie developers learned through indie and student projects, and a roundtable interview with "student-to-pro" success stories Kim Swift (Portal), Kellee Santiago (Flower), and Paul Bellezza and Matt Korba (PB Winterbottom). Even if you don't give a rat's ass about developing games, the latter is certainly worth taking a look at. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).