Hey, thanks for sharing! Happy to hear you got your foot in the door with freelancing at least - I’ve found that having contacts in the industry helps land future contracts and/or positions.
I know it isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I’ve had to move countries a few times to finally be in Europe where many more opportunities are available, and my LinkedIn actually has some invites from time to time. Actually, the company I moved here for wasn’t even gamedev, although still interesting to work for (and willing to assist in relocation :)
Regarding your point of going indie, again, I can’t offer much advice from experience. All I can say is that I, personally, won’t even work in gamedev as I do now if I couldn’t support myself, to say nothing of going indie.
Hey, thanks for sharing! Happy to hear you got your foot in the door with freelancing at least - I’ve found that having contacts in the industry helps land future contracts and/or positions.
I know it isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I’ve had to move countries a few times to finally be in Europe where many more opportunities are available, and my LinkedIn actually has some invites from time to time. Actually, the company I moved here for wasn’t even gamedev, although still interesting to work for (and willing to assist in relocation :)
Regarding your point of going indie, again, I can’t offer much advice from experience. All I can say is that I, personally, won’t even work in gamedev as I do now if I couldn’t support myself, to say nothing of going indie.