Talents in Games: HR Conference will be held on May 26. This online event is dedicated to working with human resources. HR specialists and heads of gaming companies will talk about internal training, adaptation, hairing and much more in game development.

A difficult time. Today, game developers are forced not only to stay at home, but also to work in new conditions for themselves. The companies MYTONA, Belka Games, Frag Lab and Deus Craft told how they help employees in the circumstances.

What personnel challenges did the CIS gaming companies face during the self—isolation regime, – she told in an interview with App2Top.ru Marina Lopatina, project manager of Talents In Games, a specialist search platform and recruitment agency.

Traditionally, the most popular jobs in game development are related to art and programming. It is more difficult for a person who does not know how to draw or understand code to find a job here. Especially when it comes to the desire to prove yourself as a screenwriter. However, Friday’s is now looking for as many as 13 specialists who are ready to come up with plots, characters and direct game scenes.

Talents In Games conducts a small survey and invites readers App2Top.ru take part in it. It concerns whether, in the light of recent events, many have switched to remote work.

Job search service in the gaming industry TalentsInGames.com published an infographic. It contains charts of the most popular vacancies, locations and the most active employers.

App2Top.ru together with Talents In Games conducts research. His goal is to find out for what reasons people change jobs in the industry, what usually does not suit employees in gaming companies, and also how often they hunt here.

In recent years, teams from Russia have increasingly chosen Unreal Engine to work. We tried to figure out why this is happening, how great is the demand for Unreal developers, what kind of specialists the market needs and how much they are willing to pay.

HR platform for job search in the gaming industry Talentsingames.com together with the organizers of the White Nights Conference, they announced the launch of the “Game Dev HR Awards“. This is the first annual award dedicated to game recruiting and HR work in the industry.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games has launched a “daughter” on the territory of Ukraine. The new studio is based in Kharkiv and is built on the basis of the local h8games team.

From February to July, the Talents In Games game dev specialists search site attracted about 2,000 targeted responses to companies that use its services.

PUBG Corp. I hired Glen Schofield (Glen Schofield). He is the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and former general manager of Visceral Games, as well as the executive producer of the original Dead Space.

The producers of The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon series have been promoted to deputy CEO of Nintendo. One of them is the producer of the series The Legend of Zelda Eiji Aonuma (Eiji Aonuma).

Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, announced his retirement from the company on his Facebook page.

A year ago, James Ohlen announced that he was retiring. After twenty-two years at BioWare, where he was responsible for the design of Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age and Mass Effect: Andromeda, he wanted to work on something small for himself for a couple of years. The pension did not last long.

Several new vacancies for BioWare have appeared on the Electronic Arts website. The studio needs four system designers who will debug Anthem.

The recruiter of Wargaming Mobile, Vladimir Pranov, told what should be remembered when compiling a resume and writing a cover letter for a gaming company.