EARLY ACCESS

Though by no means a guaranteed route to your dream job, creating content for games is one way you might attract a studio’s attention. “We’ve hired plenty of people from the LBP community,” says Reddy. “There was a time after we released

LittleBigPlanet where one third of our team was hired directly from the community! That number is less now, as we have grown, but the

LBP Vita games and PS3 DLC has been made by teams that have been largely made up of LBP community members. Early access or betas can end up being tools at the end of the day, and if people use their initiative to use a tool to create an impressive portfolio then all power to them. We look for people who look for opportunities to show off, so we’ve have always been impressed with people taking this route and showing ingenious results.”