Where is a good place to look for internships?

YellowYeti

So i'm looking to further my knowledge and teach myself more, and i don't know where there are companies that could give me industry experience, i looked at a riot internship but it seems you need to already have experience to go in there. So any suggestions?

Lucas Annunziata

Look everywhere an anywhere. I applied for 100+ internships while I was looking in the summer of 2011. I went on http://www.gamedevmap.com/ and just started working my way through city by city.

It doesn't hurt to send an email especially if there isn't an internship position listed.  I ended up as an intern at Codename Games working on Playstation Home titles. It wasn't the most glamorous position, but working with a small team of 7 people has helped me out tremendously, so make sure to reach out to the little guys as well.

lefix

orcahq is my favorite job page for games currently.

https://orcahq.com/jobs

beefaroni

Hi-Rez has internships every year. We just hired on one of them full time as well.

JacqueChoi

Lucas Annunziata said:

Look everywhere an anywhere. I applied for 100+ internships while I was looking in the summer of 2011. I went on http://www.gamedevmap.com/ and just started working my way through city by city.

It doesn't hurt to send an email especially if there isn't an internship position listed.  I ended up as an intern at Codename Games working on Playstation Home titles. It wasn't the most glamorous position, but working with a small team of 7 people has helped me out tremendously, so make sure to reach out to the little guys as well.

^ ^ ^ ^ THIS

Lucas is a baller.

He knows his shit.


BTW the same thing applies when looking for your first job.

RaptorCWS

Networking at conferences like gdc and smaller developer conferences can help too. someone suggested me for an internship after seeing me 2 years in a row at a developers conference and seeing my work. I still had to take an art test and interview but if it wasnt for networking I would have never got that internship, since they were never going to post the internship on their website.

YellowYeti

RaptorCWS said:

Networking at conferences like gdc and smaller developer conferences can help too. someone suggested me for an internship after seeing me 2 years in a row at a developers conference and seeing my work. I still had to take an art test and interview but if it wasnt for networking I would have never got that internship, since they were never going to post the internship on their website.

Oh that sounds interesting, i might look to see if there are any conferences or something of the sort near me and try to go to them.