Get into Game Dev
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Welcome to Get into Game Dev! I'm Matthew Ventures, a professional game developer with a passion for teaching/helping others!
My upcoming book, GIGD: Tech Interview Tactics, is a guide designed to help novice developers break into the industry and to help experienced developers brush up on their skills. This guide is fool-proof! I would know, because it worked for me and I am often-times foolish. Below are some of the teams I had the privilege to work on. In the years this guide has been available, dozens of developers have reached out to me over email and LinkedIn to share how it helped. Checkout some of their testimonials below! I'm confident that if you're willing to put in the time studying, this guide can help you as well. Let's get started! |
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Big News!I'm honored to reveal that after several years being indie-published, Get into Game Dev, will soon be internationally published by CRC of Tailor & Francis. They are the best games dev education publisher and also well known as the organization that runs GDC! You can pre-order the book by clicking the picture below or following this link.
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DisclaimerAs previously mentioned, the place to purchase GIGD: Tech Interview Tactics, is CRC's official website. However, the rest of this webpage includes information on how to purchase an older book named GIGD: Cheat Codes for Gamedev Interviews. This older book is what eventually became the official new book. The new book is better. It has been peer-reviewed and informed over years of me collecting feedback on the old book. You can read more about the old book below, and this website includes practice questions you can go through if you decide to purchase it. Introduction |
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Before You StartI'm a gameplay engineer which means I do work on both code and design, this book includes both topics. This book was inspired by Cracking the Coding Interview, that's a great book to read first if you are not familiar with the format of general coding interviews. However, "gamedev" interviews cover somewhat different topics including math, memory, and optimization which is where this book provides a unique value for you.
If you're completely new to game development, I wrote a self-study course while teaching at Stanford that you can view here. I'd recommend going through those assignments before jumping into the the more advanced topics we cover in this book. I also recommend checking out my GDC talk (mentioned above), "Get Into Game Dev: Crafting Resumes & Portfolios" for tips on preparing your candidacy for applications! Those slides will cover how to get an interview, and then you can come back to this book to learn how to pass that interview. |
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Testimonials"I just wanted to follow up and thank you for your advice and all the time you put into helping students break into the game industry. Thanks to your help and advice, I was able to land an internship as a gameplay engineer at Blizzard on the Diablo IV team."
— Zakarya Zahhal, 2023 "I recently experienced a studio closure and had to start the hunt for a new job with no warning. 'Get into Game Dev' by Matthew Ventures proved invaluable in my job hunt. Even as a senior engineer with nearly a decade in the game industry, this guide helped refresh my knowledge, especially when it came to C++ and 3D math. Both those new to game development and more experienced folk can get a lot out of it!" — Thomas Klovert, 2023 " Your guide was invaluable! All of the questions during my final interviews were straight from your guide! It was unbelievably helpful! I would absolutely recommend it to any other aspiring game devs." — Avik Shenoy, 2023 " I just wanted to say I super appreciate all the work you've put into the Get Into Game Dev book and your YouTube. I've been programming for a long time now, but self-taught, and there's a lot of things I can do but wouldn't use the right terminology when discussing with other coders. This seems like a great way for me to work on that :) Thanks again!" — Ian Snyder, 2023 "11 out of 10. It taught me information not explicitly told in my programming classes and provided me with incredibly valuable insight." — Frazier Kyle, 2024 "I wanted to let you know that your course helped me with the id Software UI Programming interview. I made it through all of the rounds including the ‘onsite’." — Zach Cook, 2024 "Recently bought your book and it's been incredibly helpful so far. I'm still in the process of putting a portfolio/resume together, but once I (hopefully) get an interview, I know I'll be very prepared. :)" — John Isril, 2024 |
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Cover art designed by Snir Alayof (@snirz94) and illustrated by Gongor G. (@gongor32).
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