Despite that being part of Europe opens many doors to the other countries where the #gamedev industry is established, few can actually step through those doors due to low wages and high costs.
Lack of working experience in the field is also a huge issue.
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#gamedev industry here is also very undeveloped, despite many efforts to establish one as far back as yearly 2000's. Constantly suffering from huge setbacks to reputation with megalomaniac projects like the "Game City".Show this thread -
Labour costs in Portugal are considerably cheaper than in our neighboring country, Spain. Yet Ubisoft and EA chose to only open development houses there, not also here, despite a few old rumours.
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This might be due to the lack of government incentives towards a
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Or even proximity of the two countries, either expecting Portuguese devs to move, or still considering that the two countries are one and the same...
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The biggest selling point of the school were I teach is that students can apply to continue their studies abroad. Being out there where the
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Sharing with my friends about the Nth
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But to many of these students, the only option is to try and develop their own games in Portugal, with hopes that it will at least give them a portfolio that
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I wish I could have some outside opinions of folks much more knowledgeable of these issues. What say you
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You are very right! I'd say though that you have an advantage over devs in Spain, and that's the average English level in Portugal. Sounds like a small thing, but it counts more than one would expect.
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But the biggest drawback, from what I can see, is how unknown the Portuguese industry is outside. The quality of programmers in Portugal isn't worse than in Spain, for example, but not being able to have big names on the CV makes it difficult to prove.
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