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João

Hey Nicola! I work for a Game Dev company and it was kind of luck how I ended up here. I come from Portugal and, as in Italy, Game-dev companies are almost non existent. So before you make any decisions, there are a few things you should ask yourself:

  • Are you willing to move to another country?
  • Do you want to work for a big company or for a smaller Indie company?
  • Do you want to program gameplay, engine, tools, build, dev ops, etc? (There are many positions in game dev)
  • Realize that game dev industry is underpaid compared to FronEnd development, for example, due to supply and demand (many people want to join).

For the big companies knowledge of C++ is a must for most positions. For Indie companies you can get by with Unity or even Javascript.

If you have many specific questions we can maybe talk on discord :)