Choices of this type are likely to continue to knock on your door for as long as you work in the games industry. The industry is growing rapidly, which means people and companies move quickly, and that presents plenty of opportunities for people to take on new roles if they wish to. Working life in the games industry is sometimes not that unlike any RPG you might have played.

Basically, working in game development, the chance of getting stuck with a job doing the same tasks over and over again is slim to none. Unless you choose it of course. This is true for studios of all sizes, but the jobs available will of course differ somewhat. The range of narrower roles will for instance be more plentiful at bigger studios, while smaller studios are likely to ask employees to do more than what their job description ordinarily entails. Neither is better, they’re just different options.

Making a career in games is not just about changing roles or company, however, it’s also about leveling up your professional skills. And at the pace of which game development is developing, you will have to learn a lot of new skills during your career. And if you enjoy your craft, you’ll likely also enjoy learning the new stuff.

Game studios regularly provide opportunities for employees to continue to learn. It can be as easy as sending them back to school for further training, or hosting internal learning sessions, buying tickets to conferences so that they can listen to inspirational talks, or hosting game james to try new stuff out. For game studios, it’s essential that they help their employees keep unlocking new skills and keep up to date with the latest developments in their profession. Simply because they need their employees to utilize newly gained knowledge to create even better games. Plus, of course, most people enjoy learning new skills, and happy employees means the studios are more likely to retain their hard-won employees.

Because, yes, with a couple of years of experience, you’re likely to have a lot of possible career choices. After all, there is a significant labor shortage in the industry. And for the individual experienced employee, that creates a lot of opportunities.