Launch Your Career in the Games Industry!

Are you interested in a career in video games? Skillset provides information on careers in video games, including how to get in, get on and get the most out of your skills and creativity.

Check out these useful links:

• An Overview of the Video Games Industry
• Roles in Video Game Design
• Careers in Games

BAFTA Ones To Watch Award

The BAFTA Ones to Watch Award encourages and rewards innovation from emerging games designers.

This year's winners were Swallowtail, whose game Tick Tock Toys is a 3D puzzle/maze game for the iPad.

If you discover you have a flare for video game design, you could find yourself up for a BAFTA Ones to Watch Award sooner than you think!

• Find out about Ones To Watch Award.

British Academy Video Games Awards

The British Academy Video Games Awards celebrate and reward the very best innovation and talent from the Video Games Industry.

There are a variety of Award categories including Artistic Achievement, Gameplay, Multiplayer and Use of Audio.

• Find out more about the 2012 Video Games Awards.

Who knows, if your career in video games really takes off, you might one day find yourself making a speech on stage as you accept your very own BAFTA mask.

BAFTA Fellowship

The Academy Fellowship is awarded for outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image. In 2012,
Markus Persson, the Swedish developer behind the phenomenally successful game Minecraft  was awarded the prestigious Academy Fellowship.

• Find out more about Markus Persson

Do you think you've got what it takes to become a BAFTA Fellow?