While game development involves the full gamut of artistic and technical skillsets, bringing the final product to fruition requires the well-honed programming and coding skills of a game developer. 

This customizable hiring kit, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, outlines the skills, experience, and knowledge to look for when recruiting a game developer. The kit includes salary details, a job description, interview questions, and a job advert.

• Featured text from the download:

  DETERMINING FACTORS, DESIRABLE PERSONALITY TRAITS, AND SKILLSETS

  Game developers must accept that significant design and specification changes are likely to be implemented during the development process. It is not unusual for entire aspects of a game to be scrapped, including all the code that goes with it. Months of hard work, and their best work, may end up in the garbage. The best game developers must be able to brush aside these events and move on to the next phase of the project, an emotional and intellectual maturity not possessed by every candidate.

  The best candidates will also have considerable artistic abilities, not often associated with the technical aspects of coding and programming. By reviewing and coordinating with the design team, a game developer should be able to comprehend the game design, visualize the final product, and understand the virtual space of the game world. This visceral comprehension of the game environment will inform the programming that makes the game possible.

Enhance your recruitment process with our in-depth nine-page document. Previously priced at $39, this is now available for download at just $9. Alternatively, enjoy complimentary access with a Premium annual subscription.

TIME SAVED: Crafting this content required 16 hours of dedicated writing, editing, research, and design.