You belong in game development.
Shared XP is helping aspiring video game developers from underrepresented backgrounds, including BIPOC, women, trans, and non-binary, disabled, and LGBTQ+ devs, enter and flourish in the game industry. Together we can build a more welcoming and diverse industry, reduce common barriers to entry, and help studios fill roles with amazing devs faster. Everybody wins!
We want to help everyone level up! We’re doing this through…
• Free, flexible online programs with industry professionals designed to help build your skills, knowledge, and confidence in game dev.
• Always-accessible resources to help you hone your skills, perfect your application, and continuing growing throughout your career.
• A welcoming community of mentees and developers like you to help you learn, grow, and build your network in the game industry.
Learn with Industry Pros
Individual mentorship is the cornerstone of Shared XP’s programs. Work with an experienced game developer from your desired career path, design a mentorship tailored to your goals and skills, and meet regularly to get feedback, guidance, or anything else you want to cover! You’ll also get access to our mentorship Discord and other cool perks!
Coaching and Q&As
If you have something that you want individual guidance on that’s too big for an @ on Twitter and too small for a full-on mentorship, these one-off, 50-minute one-on-one calls hope to kick-start that next step!
These meetings can cover…
• Career coaching
• Portfolio feedback
• Job-hunting and application guidance
• Interview practice
• …Whatever else you need!
Individual Mentorships
In these mentorships, you’ll be paired with an experienced game developer from your desired career path, design a mentorship tailored to your goals and skills, and meet regularly to get feedback, guidance, or anything else you want to cover!
Individual mentorships include…
• 3 months of weekly 1:1 meetings
• Feedback and live demos for your projects
• Guidance on technical and soft skills, job-hunting, and more
• Lifetime access to our mentorship Discord!
Check Out Our Resource Library
We have a bunch of resources and guides freely available to anyone, at any time! Wherever you are in your game dev journey, we hope we’ve got something that’ll help!:)
Portfolios are a critical part of almost every application in game dev, showing off the artistic or technical skills that you’ll be using on the job every day. These articles are by people who have reviewed uh, a lot of portfolios, and cover things like…
Not many people look forward to job-hunting. Hiring managers who have reviewed like, so many applications and done roughly a billion interviews (from both sides) strike again, offering advice on…
If we don’t have what you need or the timing isn’t right, check out these pages for external resources including…
More mentorship programs, accelerators, and classes.
Grants, scholarships, and project funding.
