Imagine this: you are a huge fanatic of videogames, and you are also a creative who wants to give back to the community. You’d love to be hired or contracted to contribute to up-and-coming videogames, but finding work in this field is getting harder and harder. What do you do? How do you sell yourself? Should you email all the game companies you know in hopes of someone actually reading your message?
This is something I want to find a more permanent, reliable solution for. It should not be this difficult to get paying gigs as a composer, session musician, artist, voice actor, game dev, etc. So, what can we do?
Over the next few months, I will be curating creatives from all over into one unified space. This community will be the foundation of the videogame industry we all hope for.
In the meantime, I will post a list of indie game sites who have job openings or a “careers” page on their website. I will also include a few that have LinkedIn pages (where they might post job opportunities in the future). I hope that this list will help ease your frustrations as a prospective videogame contributor.
INDIE VIDEOGAME JOB POSTINGS/CAREERS
US-BASED
Aeria Games (US/Germany)
Akupara Games
Artix Entertainment
Babaroga
Basilisk Games (LinkedIn)
The Behemoth
Brass Lion Entertainment (US/Canada)
Chromatic Games
Daybreak Game Company
Dimensional Ink
FuzzyBot
GarageGames
Gearbox Software (US/Canada)
Heart Machine
Hidden Path Entertainment
Mega Cat Studios
Owlchemy Labs
Parallax Studios
Psyonix (Epic Games)
Respawn Entertainment
Saber Interactive (Worldwide)
Schell Games
Serenity Forge
Stardock
Telltale Games
That Game Company
tinyBuild (Worldwide)
Torpex Games
Twisted Pixel
WayForward
Yacht Club Games
Young Horses Games
CANADA-BASED
Alien Trap
Compulsion Games (LinkedIn)
Evolve PR
Frima Studio
Gogii Games
Klei Entertainment
Tribute Games
XMG Studio
SOUTH AMERICA-BASED
Argentina
Game Ever Studio
Nimble Giant Entertainment
Brazil
Fanatee
Wildlife Studios
Chile
ACE Team
AmnesiaGames
Peru
Bamtang Games
ASIA-BASED
Japan
Comcept
Inti Creates
Q-Games
Singapore
Boomzap
South Korea
Blueside
Dragonfly
KOG Studios
Pearl Abyss
Smilegate
WeMade
OCEANIA-BASED
Australia
Big Ant Studios
BigWorld (Wargaming Sydney)
Bubble Gum Interactive
Halfbrick Studios
Hipster Whale
SMG Studio
Straight Right
New Zealand
Grinding Gear Games
PikPok
EUROPE-BASED
Croatia
Little Green Men Games (Croatia)
Czech Republic
Amanita Design
Bohemia Interactive Studio
Dreadlocks Ltd
Grip Digital
Keen Software House
Madfinger Games
England/UK
The Chinese Room
Curve Games
Datcroft Games
Firefly Studios
Frontier Developments
Hello Games
Jagex
Roll7
Splash Damage
VoxelStorm
France
Amplitude Studios
Germany
Aeria Games (US/Germany)
Daedalic Entertainment
Greece
Aventurine SA
Hungary
Invictus Games
NeocoreGames
Norway
Red Thread Games
Poland
11 Bit Studios
Flying Wild Hog
Sweden
Arrowhead Game Studios
Coffee Stain Studios
Frictional Games
Image & Form Games
Tarsier Studios
Zoink (Thunderful)