GameDev Recruiter: A Field Guide to Hiring Developers, Artists, and Designers

A recruiter opened her first game-studio req on a Monday. The title read "Senior Technical Artist." By Fridayshe could screen one. This book is how.She had filled a hundred corporate roles. This one read like English and meant nothing she recognized. If youhave moved into games from tech or corporate, you know the morning: gameplay or engine programmer, technical artist or 3D modeler, producer or project manager - titles that look familiar and aren't. Gamecandidates can tell within one message whether you understand their craft, and the good ones quietly stopreplying to the ones who don't.The Role Lens fixes that. For any role on a game team you answer three questions - what does this personmake, who do they hand it to, and what separates a senior from a junior. Learn it once and you can decode atitle you have never seen before lunch, then write the req, run the screen, and brief the hiring manager withoutbluffing.Inside, the lens is applied to everyone who builds games: - Designers, programmers, artists, producers, and QA - decoded role by role- Boolean and x-ray search built for game platforms, not generic job boards- Scorecards, screening banks, and outreach that game people actually answerEvery screening question, scorecard, Boolean string, and outreach script is printed inside - no email walls, nodownloads, just turn the page.A single tech-recruiting certification course runs anywhere from about $200 to over $2,000, and an hour witha sourcing consultant costs more than this entire book. GameDev Recruiter costs less than lunch.Open it to the role on your desk. Read the three answers. Go fill it.