Staffing companies are a common way to get started in the gaming industry as many studios hire a significant amount of contract work. 6ft Staffing in Houston is a staffing company that has multiple tech positions and has an internship program open for summer 2019.
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Blue Sky Animation Studio *creators of the Ice Age movies, Ferdinand, Rio* has summer internships open now:
Internships open:
- Animation
- Effects
- Environment
- Lighting
- Character
- Character Simulation
- Crowds
- Story
Careers
Groove Jones is a VR studio in Dallas. They have several summer internships. These are UNPAID INTERNSHIPS so be aware of this, but if you are able with your summer plans, work unpaid, this could possibly be a good opportnity.
Zenimax owns multiple studios, including ID and Bethesda. Here is the link to the Zenimax job site. If you have a specific studio that interests you (i.e. Id-in Dallas, or Bethesda-Dallas or Bethesda-Austin) then select that studio on the careers page. You can also search by dev path.
There are several job openings at the Dallas and Austin studios (as well as other Zenimax studios)
EA Internships around the world have openings for summer internships in multiple disciplines: https://www.ea.com/careers/students
There is currently a Product Design Internship open at Hasbro toys and should be more to come. Product Design is essentially toy design concepting.
Here is the link to the internship page: https://jobs.hasbro.com/go/Internships-and-Co-Ops/2481000/
Insomniac Games summer internships just went live. They have internships available in Animation, Programming, Rigging, Lighting, User Research, Character, Design, and Environment. Candidates must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited program. https://insomniac.games/careers/
Simon and Schuster (book publishing house) has openings for paid summer internships.
Fujitsu’s Richardson Texas studio has a software developer summer internship https://jobs.fnc.fujitsu.com/job/Richardson-Software-Development-Intern-TX-75082/498589200/
Quite a few internships at various EA studios for software engineers, artists and designers https://www.ea.com/careers/students
Scientific Games in Scottsdale, AZ has internships and there are a few jobs in other studios for animators https://www.scientificgames.com/careers/all-jobs (sorry, their site won’t let me copy a more specific url)
The Arkansas Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition is open to all majors. A presenter from the Arkansas Capital will be coming to campus in the next couple of weeks to talk about it and answer questions.
Here is a link to the website which includes dates for the competition. http://arcapital.com/governors-cup/
Here is information shared by the organizers of the event:
A reminder that the Governor’s Cup is for any college or university student enrolled in a degree- or certificate-seeking program this past summer semester, this fall semester, or next semester. It’s not just for business students –students in any program of study on campus may compete with faculty or non-faculty adviser supervision. Teams can also have students from more than one campus.
As has always been the case in the competition’s 19-year history, there are absolutely no parameters for what business ideas can be submitted. If you have a great business idea – you should take the plunge and run it through the competition to see if it would work. There are also cases where teams have taken a business idea from a person or organization outside the campus and run it through the competition. Should this opportunity arise, there are parameters. Be sure to review the competition rules.
Although very rigorous, the Governor’s Cup is a real-world entrepreneurial educational experience students will not forget. What they have learned by competing will serve them well way beyond college, whether they start a business or not. And, along the way, should an opportunity arise to jump on a business idea – they’ll have a head start in knowing what to do to go for it. We’re not saying all this because we put on the Governor’s Cup – this is what we hear year after year from competitors and advisers.
Delta Plastics of Little Rock is on again to be the title sponsor for 2019; providing an all-cash, no-strings-attached prize pool of $154,000.
Many game companies hire a bulk of their development teams via specialized staffing companies. While it is hard to track down those staffing serviced (there seems to be some secrecy around it all for some reason), if you do some digging on forums, etc. you can find out who different companies primarily use and contact them directly.
Naught Dog, for instance, uses Yoh staffing services http://www.yoh.com/
Many of the staffing companies you do find don’t list the companies for whom they are staffing, but they do list the categories and skill sets these companies are looking for.