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Skills that get you hired

• C++ and engine internals

  The highest-paid and least crowded corner of games. Most applicants cannot do it.

• Graphics and shader programming

  Rendering specialists are always short. It is heavy math and it pays for it.

• Tools and pipeline programming

  Building the editors artists use every day. Unglamorous, stable, valued.

• Multiplayer and networking

  Hard to learn alone and hard to hire for, which is exactly why it is worth learning.

• Technical art

  Half artist, half programmer. A rare and well-paid combination on any team.