{"id":10244,"date":"2024-01-23T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:36:05","slug":"you-want-to-be-a-video-game-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10244","title":{"rendered":"You Want to Be a Video Game\u00a0Developer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-attachment-id=\"10245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=10245\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?fit=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-24\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?resize=480%2C270&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/12\/image-24.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/article\/2733-how-to-become-a-game-developer\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/article\/2733-how-to-become-a-game-developer\/\">Techspot wrote up a simple introduction to being in game development as a career<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s a reasonable intro article to anyone interested in getting into the field as it is today; but definitely doesn&#8217;t go very deep in career development, if this would be a good fit for your personality, or matching long-term career goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think some of the comments at the bottom are pretty interesting though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/article\/2733-how-to-become-a-game-developer\/\">https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/article\/2733-how-to-become-a-game-developer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techspot wrote up a simple introduction to being in game development as a career. I think it&#8217;s a reasonable intro article to anyone interested in getting into the field as it is today; but definitely doesn&#8217;t go very deep in career development, if this would be a good fit for your personality, or matching long-term career goals. I think some of the comments at the bottom are pretty interesting though. \ud83d\ude42 Articles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2Fe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}