If you want to break into the games development area and make games not just play them here are the top 10 skills for Games Developers you should be learning.

  1. Game Design
  2. Video Games
  3. C++ :  The highest programming language in the top 10 skills above c# for unity programming underpinning the high performance physics engines.
  4. C#  :  The Microsoft language is making it big in the world of games due to the opensource Mono platform part of unity
  5. Programming  :  no surprise that this is one of the top skills of games developers
  6. 3D  :  For immersive experiences developers must have 3d experience
  7. Mobile Games  :  The largest growth area is in mobile gaming and it makes it into the top 10
  8. Animation  :  Animation skills come into the top 10
  9. Flash  :  Flash based games are used still and ahead of HTML and JavaScript in the top 10 skills still.
  10. Android  :  The top mobile platform developers are building on looks like android

We will be keeping you up to date with more career information over the coming months so stay tuned.

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