What education do you need for a job in Gaming?

Answer 1

That depends on what you want to do. If you plan to land a good job say at Capcom or Square Enix, you typically have have some sort of college education. Take the following criteria from Capcom's career section for a Game Programmer: GAME PROGRAMMER LOCATION Capcom Interactive Canada, 3310 South Service Road, Burlington, Ontario EMPLOYMENT TYPE Full-time position only DESCRIPTION Capcom Interactive Canada is a division of Capcom focused on developing games for mobile platforms. Our development studio is characterized by producing extremely high quality, unique and innovative games with a small, tight-knit development team. We are looking for a skilled programmer to assist us in the development of a wide variety of games we plan to release in the near future. Applicants will work alongside industry experts in a creative and fun environment. Since we create games with a small, albeit highly efficient, development team, all our employees need to exhibit exceptional time management skills, bearing high responsibility tasks with minimal effort. You will need to work as a team, but also independently on challenging and interesting projects. A successful candidate will require:

Answer 2

There are community colleges that offer an associates degree in game design. There are also colleges that offer a bachelor's degree in game design. Still, for entry level positions you can start with the associates degree which would take approximately two years as a full-time student.