The best time to get into the gaming industry is right now as it is booming in India. Earlier people were under the misconception that the gaming industry is only for the programmers and graphic designers. But now people are getting to know about the other gaming jobs like testing and biz-dev. Gaming is one of the most upcoming area of careers and everyone is taking it very seriously now.
Mihir Shah, product head at www.Games2Win.com, who began as a game tester, now brings home a ‘fat’ paycheck and loves his job immensely. “Game testing is great fun but don’t overlook the hard work and concentration it demands,” he insists. Just like gaming is a serious business, so is game testing. According to Shah, game testers are unsung heroes. Though they spend countless hours testing games and making them bug-free, they don’t get so much recognition, he adds.
There are other aspects to the gaming industry. You can enter the industry as a game tester where you will spend your time testing new games and give your opinions and suggest improvements to make it more exciting. But the main job of a game tester is to analyse the game and find out the software defects commonly called as bugs. You can even look at the biz-dev side on sales and marketing. You can look at overseeing or at the production side of the things if you have good product management skills. Audio visuals and sound are another aspects apart from graphic designing and programming. There are many institutes in India who provide you a number of gaming courses including a two and a half year advance diploma in animation and gaming. You can join this industry as a sound engineer. you may also try to get into the industry as a trainee on the basis of your knowledge of electronics, computers, recording technology and passion for music. Sound engineering can also lead you to get a placement into the music industry. Currently there are around 4800 listed game testing jobs on naukri.com and youngsters are now looking at the gaming industry as their first career option after completing graduation
People who want to make it into the gaming industry should figure out what in this industry interests them the most and then just go ahead and follow their passion. Passion is the key to get into this industry. Tools can be taught but skills are something you should have along with the passion.
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i have passed 12th with pcm and going to do Btech in CS and i want to build up my carrer in gaming industry as a designer or a tester.so plz anybody tell me wat to do means which courses should i do to achive my goal
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