What is the best way to be a really well-rounded software games developer?

Humble question.

A lot of game studios want to know your expertise and experience. Build up a portfolio that you can showcase to studios, and clients. Some will claim a degree is worthless, but consider picking up a degree in Comp Sci/Software Eng/Games Dev (one of the three, as these, share a lot of common modules in the 1st year) or doing certified courses.

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crashcody

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Original post by Kanarii

A lot of game studios want to know your expertise and experience. Build up a portfolio that you can showcase to studios, and clients. Some will claim a degree is worthless, but consider picking up a degree in Comp Sci/Software Eng/Games Dev (one of the three, as these, share a lot of common modules in the 1st year) or doing certified courses.

How can you build up a portfolio? How can you show off your portfolio in interviews etc?

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Kanarii

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Original post by crashcody

How can you build up a portfolio? How can you show off your portfolio in interviews etc?

When I was completing a digital portfolio for my college unit, we built it from 'scratch' (tables amongst tables in Dreamweaver - horrible method!)

I noticed a lot of digital portfolios are created by people using CSS/HTML, you could do this method and publish it. There are a lot of websites out there that also offer pre-built websites too, such as Carrd, Wix, and Weebly - the basics. WordPress offers its own CSS/HTML building too, and a lot of organisations use WordPress.

If you want to show off some coding projects, maybe publish them on GitHub. I haven't really used the site itself, so I can't help much further, but I know a lot of programmers build themselves up on there.