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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

Ask a Game Dev

Internship recruiting season has begun for some large game publishers and developers. If you’re a student and you have an interest in game development as a career, you should absolutely look into these. This means that a number of internship opportunities for summer 2025 have been posted and will be collecting applicants.

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A friend of mine wants to become a game designer without learning any other disciplines in game dev, he seems very sure this is possible but his confidence comes off as “idea guy” to me. I like thinking about design as well and how it could all fit together cohesively but I’m worried he’s setting himself up for failure by not learning another discipline to go along with it. Am I correct in this thought or am I being an jerk?

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If he wants a career in AAA games, he will need specialized expertise. That might mean working on combat, quests, cinematics, narrative, itemization, UX, enemies, levels/environments, or any of a number of other specialties. There's just too much work to be done without enough hands to do it within a small team.

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The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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Upcoming Panel at SXSW Online 2021

Game Design Aspect

Here's the panel description: Title: Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives When: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Time: 11:15 - 12:10 Eastern Time Games have a unique ability to establish empathy between a player and a world and characters, but game players don’t always follow the path the narrative lays out for them.

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Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

Leadership Executive Producer (aka Game Director ) - The mastermind in charge of the entire project. Storyboard Artist : Maps out how cinematics should look. Lays out general shot to shot progression and framing of cinematics to show the player what’s going on. Build Engineer : Nobody can work if the game doesn’t run.

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A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

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