Shift2Games CAREER DAY – all about your gaming career!

Shift 2 Games 22.06.2023.
Time 11 AM - 5 PM
Language Serbian
Location Dorćol Platz
Price Fee
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Shift2Games CAREER DAY – all about your gaming career!

The first in a series of Shift2Games CAREER DAY events! Show your drawings to game art seniors, ask HR people anything you're interested in and meet leading gaming companies. For anyone interested in a career in the gaming industry, this series will be the right place to get to know your future career in gaming, and the online platform we'll be launching on that very day - is always available to explore!

WHO IS #SHIFT2GAMES CAREER DAY FOR?

For you! If you’re looking for a career in gaming, whether you’re just exploring, looking for your first job or already working somewhere and want to move into the gaming industry.

WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE?

Several stages will be organized throughout the day in the large area of Dorćol Platz:

• PORTFOLIO REVIEW CHAIR

You draw for yourself, you watch tutorials on YouTube for hours, but you have no idea if you’re going in the right direction or not. During the whole day you will have the opportunity to show your works to senior artists from the companies: Playstudios, Nordeus, Crater Trainign Center and Art Bully.

All you need is to bring your tablet, laptop, USB or just a phone on which you will show your ArtStation account or portfolio, and they will give you feedback and guidelines for further work. You can also ask them how they’re doing at work, what you need to study next, and what your next steps are for entering the gaming industry.

• SERBIAN GAMING COMPANIES’ BOOTHS

Some of our members will be there at your disposal – for you to get to know them and for them to get to know you!

• HR CORNER

In this part of the fair, you can talk 1 on 1 with people who hire future gaming talents and who take care of employees in the companies: Playstudios, Wargaming, Nordeus, Mad Head Games.

You can ask them anything: how is an interview for a position, what is expected in the test, what is team building like… Here you can also show your CV, to see if you need to improve it somehow. You can also apply for internships in companies that are planning them soon. And merch packages are waiting for everyone in the HR corner.

• MAIN STAGE

At the very end, the main dynamic program will be held on the main stage from 4 p.m

• INSPO TALKS: What can be done in gaming and how do you get there? Those who have succeeded know this. Listen to three turbo short but dynamic lectures from the stars of domestic gaming!

> Nikola Damjanov (Nordeus) – Game art
> Anđela Simić (Playstudios) – Game Design
> Nikola Šoškić (Shosha Games) – Indie development

• LAUNCH of the Shift2Games PLATFORM: Shift2Games finally becomes the address for all of you on June 22nd at this event!

• SOMETHING TOP TOP SECRET (Well, it’s a secret duhh!)

This activity is launched by the Creative Tech Serbia supercluster, with the support of USAID Serbia and ICT Hub Belgrade (through the Serbia Inovira project).

Anđela Simić,
Game Designer & Product Owner, Playstudios Europe
About the lecturer

With many years of experience in game design of mobile games, Anđela has worked on some of the biggest mobile games published in Serbia. In addition to working in the office, she is dedicated to imparting knowledge to everyone interested in entering the industry, and she also taught as part of the Master 4.0 project.

Nikola Šoškić,
Head of Studio, Shosha Games
About the lecturer

The former film director, co-founder of the YouTube channel Filmofil, and lecturer at the Fokus film school in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, specializing in digital arts. Growing up with video games, he expanded his knowledge from the film world to gaming and has been active in the video game development industry since 2019. In 2022, he founded Shosha Games, an indie game studio, and participated in the SGA Playing Narratives program where he found most of the current members of Shosha Games. Since 2023, he has been working as an instructor for Unreal Engine in the Unreal Fellowship program in Novi Sad, collaborating with Epic Games and 3Lateral. Currently, he works as a developer and game designer at Shosha Games.

Nikola Damjanov,
Lead Game Artist, Nordeus
About the lecturer

Nikola is a 3D generalist with over 10 years of diverse experience. He began his higher education as an engineer, but after a few years turned to interactive media. His first professional steps were making models, animations and VFX for music videos and movies. After that, he dabbled in architecture and product visualization for a while, but then switched to graphics and web design. Most of the time he made interactive art installations in parallel, but in the end he found his happy place – as a game artist.

For the past eight years, he has been actively improving his artistic skills, researching new tools and adopting them as quickly as possible. Nordeus helped him channel his passion, focus and broad skill set to the position he is in today. He moved through the company quite quickly, and currently works as a lead artist in the company. Apart from his daily activities, he cares about the bigger picture. Because of this, he is also heavily involved in recruiting, interviewing, mentoring and overall maintaining the company culture.

He actively participates in several game-art communities, writes blog posts and generally likes to share everything he knows, but also expects to learn something from everyone.

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