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How I Got Into Game Development and Got Hired By Unity
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In this video Matt Schell from Thousand Ant shares the story of how he got started in the games industry as a second career, after his life as an independent musician and teacher.
Matt Mirrorfish shares how he learned c#, got hired by Unity Technologies as a tutorial creator, how he worked for years on an indie game he never released and what he learned in between, along with some advice for new folks interested in getting into the industry.
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Learn Unity3d and game development with experienced indie game developers. Subscribe for tutorials, devlogs, and gamedev advice uploaded weekly.
Visit us on Discord, ask questions and share your work: https://discord.gg/AGHZvCf
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thousandant
https//twitter.com/mattmirrorfish
Visit our website: http://thousandant.com
00:00 Intro - The best ways to get into game development
00:30 How I got started
03:01 Learning skills while getting paid
04:12 Teaching is an accelerant to your own learning
05:50 Leaving Unity and going independent
07:54 My advice for aspiring indie game devs
09:36 Determine your own timeline
10:26 Leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments!
Matt Mirrorfish shares how he learned c#, got hired by Unity Technologies as a tutorial creator, how he worked for years on an indie game he never released and what he learned in between, along with some advice for new folks interested in getting into the industry.
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Learn Unity3d and game development with experienced indie game developers. Subscribe for tutorials, devlogs, and gamedev advice uploaded weekly.
Visit us on Discord, ask questions and share your work: https://discord.gg/AGHZvCf
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thousandant
https//twitter.com/mattmirrorfish
Visit our website: http://thousandant.com
00:00 Intro - The best ways to get into game development
00:30 How I got started
03:01 Learning skills while getting paid
04:12 Teaching is an accelerant to your own learning
05:50 Leaving Unity and going independent
07:54 My advice for aspiring indie game devs
09:36 Determine your own timeline
10:26 Leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments!