I dont care about the living hell part. How do I get that job?
It’s a growing industry, so there are a lot of game development jobs available out there. You just have to be good. To be a game artist, you need some basic drawing skills, and you need to be able to build and texture objects or characters using a PC-based 3D program like 3DSMAX or MAYA. To be a designer, you need to be able to build and texture game levels in a popular game editor (Half-Life, Unreal, NWN, etc.) and you should have good writing skills and the ability to analyze the mechanics of a game and what really makes it fun or not. To be a programmer, obviously you must be able to crank out solid code (I think most places mostly still use C++). Most companies also have departments for QA (testing), marketing, accounting, and desktop/network support. Look in some game magazines, and youll probably see lots of job listings. The largest concentrations of game companies are in Boston MA, Austin TX, and the LA and SF Bay areas of California – though more companies are springing up all
