   Career Paths
  I'm a big fan of games and would like to work in a more casual workplace so it seems to me games development is a pretty good career choice. My problem is that I don't particularly like linear algebra or 3D math which I understand to be fairly prevalent in the industry. I can use these skills, I just prefer not to. So I would like to know what kind of gaming job openings (or just keywords) I should be looking for, I would guess just non graphics related jobs. I see things like Tools engineer or Server engineer, these sound like non graphic math jobs although I don't really know what a Tools engineer is exactly.   
  I would assume that a Tool Editor would be one that develops the tools that the game designers use (map editors, etc.). The Server Editor is in charge of the servers. There are numerous jobs in the gaming industry, don't assume that all of them are programming or art related. There are middle-people who just know scripting (sometimes not even that) who just work with the tools that were made to populate a game with content. Then you have people like Community Relations managers and other people like that.   ;  From everything I have read the gaming industry is anything but laid back, they work more hours then your average programmers in any survey I have seen because their deadlines are not easily changeable and when they are close they can work up to 80 hours a week. I only know one person in the industry and they actually said they couldn't stand it because of that however many people enjoy the work.   ;Quote:Original post by james... I don't particularly like linear algebra or 3D math ...  I would like to know what kind of gaming job openings (or just keywords) I should be looking for, I would guess just non graphics related jobs. You're saying you want to find non-math-heavy programming jobs?  Not all game programmers have to deal with heavy 3D math, especially since engines handle a lot of that for you.But if you just want to know more about game jobs besides 3D programmers, there's a lot of info:http://www.gamedev.net/reference/http://gamecareerguide.com/careers/http://www.igda.org/breakingin/http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson7.htm;  You may dress casual but it's intensive work.  It's true rather than a rumor people put out to scare people away.   