HOW TO START A CAREER IN VIDEO GAMES
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2020
- People from Ubisoft studios around the world tell the story of how they started working in the video games industry.
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*-Entry level job :-*
*Atleast 5 years of experience*
Alright then, guess ill leave.
I really don't quite understand that too. Like being a QA tester, you need to have 2 years in experience first.
Like how? That's like the most basic job ever.
And this is so true... They don't give a chance to junior profiles. Even when they ask for a junior profile, it has to be 2 to 3 years of experience. This is not a junior profile!
Yup you see it everywhere, ubisoft, blizzard, Hi-Rez etc... In fact we are at the point where even some of the QA stuff now want experience. It is always kind of funny watching these types of videos, its like "where, where are these entry level roles unless you are talking about those 8 internship roles that I am sure 100+ people applied for". For anyone reading this comment and you are trying to break in on the art side of things, from what I have observed on LinkedIn the people getting hired to entry level art roles have a great portfolio and some type of game art degree-those 2 are inseparable and are indistinct. So the old advice of "you don't need a degree you only need a portfolio"- yeah... that is about as relevant as "just put on a suit and walk into the company and demand to speak to the boss" . Maybe at one time a portfolio would be enough but with all the schools offering game art degrees I don't think you are getting past HR with just a portfolio and no degree or an unrelated degree.
Not true. They do hire junior positions without experience.
Can see the pain in the eyes of
"I left an IT company to join a gaming company" ~Abhishek
What do you mean
@@ekamonthewise2395 I'm guessing if u have experience in computer networking or something like IT then u have an advantage in the gaming industry.. I hope.. animation maybe
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i envy all the devs who got to play their games before everyone :D
Hey know how bad the game it's before release the problem it's the company not the devs
I am just 15 now, but my biggest dream is to work at ubisoft. Its something ive been looking at from when i was very young. I recently found out what I want to do. Video games are a big part of my life and ubisoft is a big part of that life. Proper education is what I am struggling for now. I really hope a get a job at ubisoft.
Me too
I've heard many stories of people starting their career in games by just being a part of the community, especially that of their preferred practice (3d modeling, programmer, publication, writing) and producing work and showing people their work. Helping people finish their projects is the great way to get your name out there and get experience working in teams. With years of that under your belt it's hard for companies looking for reliable workers to look away.
@@arkhainesyn9065 thank u sm for this comment
but now you are 18
Lol. I am an junior undergraduate computer science student with 86 credit hours and you need to learn a game engine and C++ computer programming language which is my main game engine and computer programming language I am currently learning for a long while. I'm from TX, USA. I'm 24 yrs old male.
Haa.. They are saying like getting a job there is easy
You need to work hard for it :)
As a AAA dev, Grind hard to play hard
Remember kids it's about connection not talent. That what they wont tell you. And I speak from experience.
Exactly. Some of the most talented people in all fields (including outside of games) are never recognized or given a chance, and are brushed to the side.
Video Game Industry is not an easy place to work, I think. Hard to enter, and hard to stay. And if you don't have any connection, hard to get in.
How to start a gaming career
1. Buy only ubisoft games
A strange coincidence is that most of my Ps4 games and Xbox 360 games are from Ubisoft, since Ac ezio trilogy to Ac Rogue in Xbox 360 and Ac Unity to Rainbow Six in Ps4 like....Wtf
@@aethertrevor5971 yeah same like almost all my games are ubisoft to lol
@@rh4723 true I got like 3 farcrys and 3 AC 😂😂
It sucks, when you want to be a game Developer but don't have any skills or don't know where to start 😔
Do it like me ^^
Start a career in retail, visit trade school, study economics, finish with Master, meanwhile you start applying for jobs in marketing and sales department at smaller publishers.
Then you need to learn game design on the sideline, express to your superior interest in helping creating a game and now you're lead creative director without any idea how to code.
Approximate time necessary ~7 years.
Hope I can fulfill my plan. ^^
@@liberatusblair All that and you could just learn to code or design with UE5
Ask yourself - what do you like in life? Remove video games.
Do you like drawing?
Do you like 3d design?
Do you like making games? (Like game rules with a friend)
Do you like coding?
Do you like organizing people and things?
Answer some of those and you'll have a direction to start moving.
I like creating characters/abilities/classes. I’ve also thought about things like keybinds and how I’d like certain things to be like gunplay. A lot of things I’ve thought about usually just relate to things I’ve played though. Like I like the gunplay, gameplay, and ui in apex legends and I like the characters of paladins and the story/missons and ui of borderlands, also the builds. I’ve thought about certain things like if I wanted a game with characters like paladins I wouldn’t want a loot system like in borderlands but instead maybe just weapon upgrades like weapons rolls on destiny. Just random things like that. I’ve also thought about a world, I know there would probably be better suited people like environmental artist or something but I’ve enjoyed the idea of a game set in a hollow planet with a giant megastructure cyber tower/dungeon. Why a hollow planet? Idk cuz I’d be cool. Of course since the settings is so massive in scale you’d only be able to explore important parts like how borderlands levels are. I got a lot of inspiration from the manga blame! Due to its interesting way of telling the story through its world instead of actually having a good plot and from the anime lain since it pokes fun at conspiracy theories. But I’ve always been lacking academically, especially with things like math. So idk if I would be able to code, I also suck at art and I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed actually doing it.
Suddenly they hear that they are making games but in fact they are making a fantastic trailer.
2:30 And they said, "You are fired!".
Hired
hired not fired
lol
I applied for ubisoft belgium many times, they never answered me. Surely they played basketball with my cv.
That's it. This a nice video, but this is not reality.
@@CaterpillarZoo Aye the thing is videos like this only show the success stories, the stories of those who started out working as some temp QA tester (through a temp agency like Roberthalf) who eventually got brought onto the actual company and where able to work their way up. What this video does not show is the many QA testers who never got past the temp agency to work for the studio itself, the QA testers who where dumped after the testing period was over, the QA testers who in spite of QA for years upon years are still temps etc... It is a nice and entertaining video, I am not taking away from that but it shows a very thin slice of reality an almost "All you need to do is QA and boom you now work for Ubisoft/X studio".
"Alors j'ai fait des études de psychologie..."
Ah.
Je fais des maths, je peux venir chez vous ? :-D
Applied many times and knocked back every time....
Thx for the heads up
Hell i could be a janitor if it meant working on a gaming company
Working at gaming industry is my dream!
Hi Ubi, I feel this would be more balanced if you included the cons in the video also.
The peak of excellence of a video game can be reached if actual gamers are involved in the stage of development.
Whaddya Think?
Or even film makers actually
@@Booogiemancousin69 Ubi makes the best cinematics so it ain't a problem
@@shaunaksamant1603 If you are thinking about the trailers by "cinematics" , they are not made by ubisoft.
@@stoprer agreed.. but I think they do justice
When one is a Gamer, they can live a 1,000 life's.
I want to work at ubisoft! 😍
One day ✌ a dream will come true ❤✌
Good luck and God bless.
Hope one day I can join in this wonderful company to create great games🤗
The new trailer of 'Watch Dogs: Legion' is very nice made and I wish you and everyone good luck with everything. And let you more time (time for everyone that works for you + you) and create more things that everyone like to play ((after years)again).
Have fun and enjoy the days + everyone too 👋🙂☕
Mark my words, I'm going to get into Ubisoft! 😌😌
1:10 didn't know ryan reynolds is in there.
Why are you guys making me cry 0.0
According to the video, It seems very easy to work in Ubisoft. So can I come tomorrow and begin to work with you ??
Would love to join you all in some way.
I’d really like to join Ubi 😿
Do you have works (offices, work oppurtunities) at Hungary?
Hmm, it’s the PR damage for me. Lol.
So how do you get into a position in this company, is there entry level with no Cyber background?
Tbh I wish to work there
1:14 Oh I didn't knew that Ryan Reynolds works at Ubisoft
Studying civil rn and i just found my passion in 3d, but now its too late, i dont wanna waste the money🙁
It's never late. I'm in civil too
It's not actually that fun and cool.
Starting as dev, absolutely, but not at Ubisoft.
Same here
Why not?
@@LifeIsRecusive You mean you didn't hear about the way they treat people there?
Start as Freelance QA and then get hired for paid QA, and then kill off Soap
I just got my Associate's Degree over the summer in Video Game Design.
Nice! Make something awesome. Hope it works out, good luck and God bless.
@@connordorman117 I can do the writing, weapons, characters, and locations. But I'm completely lost in the tech and programming.
@@paulsteinhauser434 same here. Let’s be real though, writings the fun part.
@@connordorman117 it is but as I said. I can provide pictures of what I want to see. But I don't know computer tech. I don't know it at all.
@@paulsteinhauser434 all good, there are jobs in the gaming industry that don’t require computer skills.
Can u do a beta access for watch dogs legion
I bet everyone here wants to join Ubisoft so that you want to try your best to fix or help a favorite game you enjoy from your childhood like Rainbow, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell.
I want to work in this company
hurry to show a new trailer or first far cry 6 gameplay please
Is harassment apart of the job
You Are Right Bro!! Its Lots Of Harrasement In Gaming Industry Like Riots Game , Rockstar Games Etc etc etc👍👍👍
J'ai cru que c'était Cyprien en miniature pendant un court moment 😅
Qualifications? Skills?
Romaaaan!
Comment no. 7, Lets go
This explains why Splinter Cell has become screwed up and gone downhill. Too many non-hardcore gamers as well.
I wish my dream comes true in sha allah... i am still 15 yrs and i am in 10th and my dream is to work in ubisoft
same brother. I am in 10th too, and i want to work at ubi
@@piyushzode2829 we both will work if we get degree and eligibility to work there
@@bluefox.1644 i hope so friend
Me too
You said that you didn't have room to put in ubisoft's apology for its employment practices, yet you have enough time to have an apply here advertisement?? That's pretty messed up
I hope none of the women in this video have been sexually abused.
Why?
@@elijahstanton1961 Ubisoft.
Yep..as I thought college college college
I’m going to college for game dev & design
How can i join
Gud to see indians❤️
Ur only a real gamer if u noticed the for honor viking faction logo at 1:05 in the video.
Ubisoft pune and Mumbai-Why no indian game except far cry 4?
Its not neccessary... gaming is fr entertainment not for country purpose
@@bluefox.1644 yeah that's right
How?????????
Brazilian fluent in English and with a good experience in translation. I'm HERE !!!
. I got a email on in-person testing 😭 and I don't reside in Montreal and they have yet to respond with any confirmation. 😎 I applied for a remote position and have yet to receive a response... ❤️🔥 Not even a no...
Crazy rabbits please make a new game please
There are many departments within game companies. ⚠️
High pay, High Difficult : Developer 🔥
Other roles are:
3D modeler, Animator, Level Designer , Sound Engg , Game Testers, and other roles too.
If you want to learn game programming, let me know 😊
I would
I want to learn, any help?
I would like to learn
oi swadian city, answer us
i would
How did some of these guys get in
Exactly what i was thinking. But no one said anything i found helpful.
I need job of 3D artist
I’m looking for video editor or camera operator job, please Ubisoft request my CV and give me a chance!
Please do not choose such background music, sir
I'm proud of these guys except those two who couldn't say one sentence in english
So what if they cant speak, tf lol
You kidding? I sent to you my CV for about 4 years and NEVER got even a simple answer. Now, I am a game designer with several ages experience. Start a career in Game Development is hard, but Ubisoft is not the company which will help you with that.
CV?
@@peacelover5729 resume.
Absolutely...
QA tester is such a interesting job
Just a guess ubisoft has laid off there current workers due to quarantine losses and they need new and cheap workers
Ye they keep saying about how becoming a tester is how to get further in a game related job but they probably just need some testers
Have of these people aren’t even gamer and you ask me why Ubisoft games have no soul
3rd
Women : “I’ve never played a game”
In other words, if you want to make money, and do it with video games... You can't play them.
Who knows the girl in 0:05 she looks the best 😁
Step 1 - Don't work at ubisoft
Why
@@JUSTANDORDINARYGUYONINTERNET So you won't get sexually abused or get discriminated against
@@JUSTANDORDINARYGUYONINTERNET Sponsored by EA
Is being sexually assaulted a pre-requisite to working at Ubisoft?
Hahahahaha funny Ubisoft makes games..)
Oh gosh half these people never played a game in their life, no wonder Ubisoft sucks
I simply dislike anyone and everyone who works at Ubisoft. :)
So ubisoft when going to fix For honor ubisoft ruining games with updates step 1 don,t work for this shameful company. Hey ubisoft you should be a shamed of yourself for making nate Cadillac quit For honor.
wow that was not helpful at all
So basacly they lack actuall players. Yeh that checks out.
Why are non gamers working on games ? No wonder why games nowadays are s***
Hello Ubisoft, please delete or rename status "GODLIKE" in For Honor game.
Relegion reason, that why i cant play this Great Game.
In Islam, "Shirk" (Arabic: شرك širk) is the sin of idolatry or polytheism
It means ascribing to, or the establishment of, partners placed beside Allah. It is termed Tawhid (monotheism). Mušrikūn مشركون (pl. of mušrik مشرك) are those who practice shirk, which literally means "association" and refers to accepting other gods and divinities alongside God (as God's "associates").
or you can just skip it since a status in a video game offends you that much.
@@SilvaArmour3000 This is the problem, if I continue to play ignoring all this, then I will be the one who supports this.
Last thing i was expecting to hear about For Honor is someone not wanting to play it because a status name religiously offends him lol.
That's literally the most stupid reason i ever heard, really.
@@abysswalker1282 for you is stupid reason, for me is not.
@@maniac95d how about getting out from your religious bigotry and start playing the game for what it was made for: having fun ?
Jeez, people like you that has to bring your religion sh*t in videogames really gets on my nerves.
Art is so saturated😂
Starting as dev, absolutely, but not at Ubisoft.
Did you start as a dev?
@@CaterpillarZoo what does the upper statement have to do with that :3
@@absence9443 you said "starting as dev", so I was wondering if that was your situation, and so tried to understand why not at Ubisoft. I know a freshly graduate that doesn't find a job because of no XP. Even when asking for a junior dev they ask for XP. But this is just impossible. This means that you have to start as a dev in any other industry, and then try to come back to video game industry. But this is non sense. Motivation is far so important to me.
@@CaterpillarZooI referred to the main message of the video, starting ones career as a developer which I highly support due to its long term resilience and general quality, yet Ubisoft doesn't put lots of if any at all value at its employees beyond perceiving them as financial objects. Motivation isn't just key, self-motivation and engagement are crucial for a suitable learning curve, but sadly employers don't recognize it quickly. That's why the focus on experience as well as the presentation of hard skills (& soft skills) is more reliable in that case. Usually experience isn't an absolute necessity even if explicitly mentioned in the job details, if you have the capabilities and potentially a few projects to show, then they're likely to consider you as valuable regardless of missing experience in this exact field. (as long as it's not some generic hierarchy based company dominated by bureaucracy)
@@absence9443 thank you for your answer. Here in France, all dev jobs ask for experience. Junior dev jobs are rare. And if you don't want to work on mobile games, it is difficult to start here. Many frenchies goes to the states or to Canada where there is less pression about experience, it seems.