VIDEO: How to become a game developer

Difficult to break into, though not as much as people say.

Diverse in jobs on offer, though can allow for highly specialist skills.

And a Degree can help, and then again it might not.

Ian Goodall, the director game recruitment firm Aardvark Swift, was interviewed by the BBC to discuss how people can fulfil what is often seen as a dream job – a games developer.

Those crunching for weeks on end, bereft of a social life, just to re-skin a rudimentary driving game may take a different view, but Goodall’s take-home message is to pursue the dream.