Having recently graduated from the RMIT Design degree for Games, myself and my peers have been faced with a glaring cliff face of the real world, where we no longer have the support net of being students to catch us if we doubt ourselves. Personally, I have always felt a pull towards writing and analysis of video games, so the choice of further education was an easy one to make. However, many of my classmates are choosing to join the job market. Knowing that jobs in the Australian games industry are difficult to come by, and curious how they all intended to take these first steps into their professional careers, I sat down with a few of them to discuss their goals.
My own game-making partner, Emma, feels a similar pull away from traditional game design, and is instead focussing on honing her other skills before joining the job hunt. …