Zoddom Posted Tuesday at 03:38 PM Posted Tuesday at 03:38 PM Hey everyone, so I recently completed a training course for software testing. Now I had no prior software development knowledge, and only received some basic skills in Python and a big of MySQL (mostly in object-oriented programming), but Im a huge fan of flight sims and am happy to see them consistently growing over decades. So I thought maybe I could look for some jobs in software testing for flightsim game developers, but quickly found it was quite hard to even find any job openings at developers. Thats why I came here to ask the community if you have any tips in getting started in the game dev business in general and as a software tester in flightsims specifically. Im happy about any advice! :)
Aapje Posted Wednesday at 10:00 AM Posted Wednesday at 10:00 AM Flight sims are not consistently growing as a market over the decades. They've been doing quite poorly if you look at how many games get made and such, and only recently got a resurgence. Anyway, it's going to be tough finding a job like that with just a training course. In general, lots more people are motivated to work in the games industry, rather than some more boring field like finance. So one thing you can try is to find a job in such a field and then transition over once you get some decent experience. Another option is to volunteer or semi-volunteer for a team like Team Fusion (https://www.facebook.com/teamfusionmod/), next to another job. Then once you prove yourself, you can move over to a more established company. But keep in mind that there are not that many companies making flight sims and thus not that many jobs.
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