Rob Precious of middleware technology developer Geomerics talks to Game Careers .BIZ

Rob Precious met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK.  Rob is Geomerics Vice President of Sales bringing years of middleware expertise, drawing on positions with companies such as Criterion to drive and develop global sales for Enlighten, Geomerics’ revolutionary real-time lighting technology. His advice for job seekers looking to work at [...]

A Career in Game Programming – interviews by Australian public broadcaster ABC

In this series fom ABC, they take an in-depth look at some of the key careers within the Games Industry talking to game developers across Australia. This video shows what it takes to get a job working as a programmer on games.

Russell Clarke Head of Engineering Ideaworks speaks to GameCareers.BIZ

Russell Clarke is the Head of Engineering for London-based Ideaworks Game Studio.  After several years at Stainless Software developing cutting-edge character control and animation technology, Russell left to explore the wider software industry, working for technology companies in Edinburgh and Glasgow before moving to London to join Ideaworks in 2005. As Lead Engineer on the [...]

David Salz MD of German game developer Bitfield speaks to Game Careers.BIZ

Bitfield is an independent game development studio based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2006 by industry veterans. The company creates games for PC and Nintendo DS as well as a middleware technology called “BitEngineDS”, an all-purpose game engine for the NintendoDS.

David Salz holds a degree in Computer Science has been working as a [...]

Game programming and engineering job descriptions and salary ranges in the UK.

Job Title/Salary
Alternative Titles
Job Description

Technical Director £60,000-£90,000 
Chief Technical Officer.
The Technical Director will be responsible for the programming team across multiple projects and is responsible for all technology across the development company.

Programming Manager £50,000-£70,000 
Technical Manager, Technical Producer, Technology Manager, 
In conjunction with the Producer, the Programming Manager puts together and manages the team of game programmers responsible for creating all [...]

A great introductory video to game programming from Elysian Shadows

Game Careers recommends this video if you are thinking of making a start yourself at game development or game programming. This man knows his stuff.
 

Recommended links:

Project Website:
http://elysianshadows.com

Additional Useful Links:
Good game-specific language for beginners:
Blitz Basic – http://blitzbasic.com/

Free C++ Compilers:
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
http://www.codeblocks.org/
Game Programming Libraries:
Allegro – http://alleg.sourceforge.net/
SDL – http://www.libsdl.org/
OpenGL – http://www.opengl.org/

You can see Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaxckM…  and Part 3 [...]