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• Regretting my unfulfilling focus on tech, but afraid to lose salary / stability with family depending on me

  It's very possible to make a lateral move from engineering to technical design. It's going to be a little trickier to get a remote senior technical design position right out of the gate, usually that's reserved for someone who has been in that specific role before, but it might still be possible for a mobile or browser game company. I work remote in AAA, but that comes after 15 years in technical design. If you're... Source: 10 months ago

• Does solo dev count as work experience?

  If you don't have work experience but have a good portfolio, then apply to the studios directly. Websites like gamedevmap.com or glassdoor are your friend. That said, once you've had a game-dev job it gets much, much, much easier to find other game dev jobs, so working at a smaller company (even a mobile game company) for a year can help you finding the job you want further down the line. Source: about 1 year ago

• Have 3 playable games but struggle to find job. How many do I need in order to find one?

  I've been applying everywhere on gamedevmap.com and such. Source: about 3 years ago