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How can the UK games industry solve its skills shortage? (www.gamesindustry.biz)
submitted 5 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Offer decent pay.

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I know some friends who are full stack, or backend developer, who would like to be game developer, if only the salary match his current position, or at least not lower than 10%>

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 17 points 5 months ago

Leaving the EU was a major problem. All game developers in other EU countries pull from all over the EU for their talent pool, but that's much harder for the UK now.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 months ago

“Fuck you, pay me.”

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 16 points 5 months ago

Money.

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Pay more salary to attract talent from different sub-major of this software development

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

it also seems like the games industry as it is now is pretty low pay and high demand working environment. so good luck with that

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The article has all the answers:

  • pay them
  • employ juniors and make it attractive for them to stay
  • add salary information to job ads. not "competitive salary", which means less than nothing
[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

It isn't rocket science. You recruit from the market or train your own.

It's painful they do not get this.

[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 6 points 5 months ago

Move out of UK.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

Sounds like skill issue.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I had a family friend who worked as a midlevel dev at Rockstar 10 years ago and he was being paid £27k while crunching 100 hour weeks