To make a game you need a good idea and a very good game development team. Once you have created a clear vision of your project, the next step is always to find a team of programmers to bring it to life. Finding the best game developers who are really passionate about video games is no easy task.
Choosing Game Technology
Before hiring a game development team you need to understand what specific technologies your game should be developed on. This will determine the technical expertise you need from the programmers. At this stage, you may need to discuss your specific requirements with an experienced game developer or game development company. For game development, you usually need developers with extensive experience with game engines such as Unity and Unreal game development, and relevant programming languages – C #, C ++, JavaScript, and graphics-related competencies.
The Team
Game development teams consist of various professionals with competencies in programming, 3D modeling, sound, animation, UI / UX, and visual art. The size of the team obviously depends on the complexity of the game to be created. The Ninja Theory development team that created the famous game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice consisted of 20 to 25 people. But if you’re planning a big project, you will definitely need at least 5 times more.
Finding a dedicated game development team can be difficult.
However, there are several ways to find and hire talented game developers:
- Game developer communities – TIGSource, IndieDB, and Develteam can be a starting point for finding game programmers;
- Freelance networks such as UpWork;
- Recruiting agencies that have their own database of programmers and specialize in recruiting IT staff;
- Outsourcing companies with well-managed teams;
- Networking at conferences;
- Social media, Discord communities.
If you want to save money, you may try to pick professionals on freelance platforms or from social media channels, however, no one could guarantee you the quality and keeping the deadlines. Recruiting staff from the agency database is a more reliable option. At the same time, you will have to review every candidate separately, and build the whole team out of them.
If you want to make part of the work done by the well-vetted and perfectly-managed team of professionals in line with your budgets and deadlines, just contact Devoted Studios. We have Unreal game development teams for hire that you can be confident in.
Requirements for Unreal Engine Developer
Unreal Engine developer is in charge of setting up the visual parameters of the game, testing it, looking for bugs, and working on improving functionality for the user. In other words, the programmer works out sounds, animation, and interface of the future game on the popular UE engine.
The duties of the developer include full work with Unreal Engine, he makes games with ready-made models and textures, as well as developing new models from scratch.
A senior specialist often holds the position of lead developer, they have a team of 5-7 people in his charge, and set the pace of work and controls the deadline for the project. In their portfolio, you will find their experience with several projects on Unreal Engine, created by them from scratch. Usually, such a specialist has at least 4 years of development experience under their belt.
