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Summer Game Jam 2024

Looking to add a fun game to your portfolio? How about earning some serious bragging rights in the process? Join us this summer and let's beat the heat of job-searching together. 💡Want to get right to registration? Do that here. 📆 Mark your Calendars Jam Event: June 13 -

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TheXPerts: Meet Matt Freedman

Welcome to our first Member Spotlight at TheXPlace, featuring a unique twist: a self-interview with one of our most esteemed professional members, Matt Freedman. This edition provides an intimate, in-depth look at Matt's journey, narrated in his own words, offering a personal perspective on his remarkable career in

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Earn more and get paid with Contracting and Payments!

Today we are thrilled to announce Contracting, Payments and Escrow: a set of game-changing solutions built to ensure talent and studios work together in a seamless, reliable and trustworthy way.

Contracting and payments

How To: Set up your wallet on TheXPlace

Setting up your wallet on TheXPlace is quick and easy, allowing you to manage payments and receive funds for your work seamlessly.  TheXPlace partners with Stripe for secure payments on transactions. Setting Up Your Deposit Method📥 To receive payments for your work on TheXPlace, you’ll first need to set

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How To: Get a job through TheXPlace

The job board allows you to review open positions and apply directly with your profile to jobs that are a match and that interest you. Currently, the types of jobs available through TheXPlace are hourly, one-off projects, and fractional work positions. Create an account and complete verification✔️ * To get started,

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How To: Submit an invoice for hours worked on a project

Submitting an invoice for your hours on TheXPlace is quick and easy, allowing you to receive funds for your work seamlessly. TheXPlace partners with Stripe for secure payments on transactions. Submitting your invoice🧾 To be paid for your invoice, you will need to input the number of hours you worked

Contracting and payments

How To: Hire talent through TheXPlace

TheXPlace allows you to hire exceptional talent and set up their contract and payments through the platform. Currently, the types of jobs available through TheXPlace are hourly, one-off projects, and fractional work positions. Create an account and complete verification✔️ * To get started, you will need an account created on TheXPlace.

Contracting and payments

Contracting and Payments: Which countries are currently being served?

Say goodbye to geographical constraints! Talented professionals can now dive into a sea of creative and rewarding opportunities, regardless of location. Focus on what you do best and let us handle the rest. And for game dev studios? TheXPlace is your “long arm, allows you to discover and hire from

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How To Build A Strong Portfolio

Stand Out with a Portfolio on TheXPlace: A Guide for Game Designers, Programmers, and Other Professionals Who should have a portfolio? Simply put, anyone who wants to create video games should have a portfolio on TheXPlace! Studios want to see that you’ve got the goods. A portfolio is one

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Who Should Have a Robust Portfolio on TheXPlace

Who Should Have a Robust Portfolio on TheXPlace You owe it to yourself and your career in gaming to have an amazing portfolio on TheXPlace (TXP). A trusted community of vetted professionals and companies in the video game industry, TXP is a unique, visual platform designed with Game Development in

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TheXPlace portfolio: How Game Designers, Programmers and other professionals in the Games Industry can stand out

Who should have a portfolio? A portfolio is one of the most powerful tools to showcase your skills and experience - and it is not exclusively for artists! Game designers, programmers, producers, monetization specialists, and other professionals in the games industry can benefit from having a portfolio that represents their

Events

Welcome to Coffee Chats on TheXPlace!

Coffee Chats on TheXPlace are an opportunity to connect across disciplines and across time zones! Coffee Chats are informal, friendly spaces for professionals to share about their work and experiences. All participants will start together in the “lobby”. There will be three rounds of conversation, where participants will be randomly

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Summer Game Jam FAQ

Q1: What is the Summer Game Jam about? The Summer Game Jam by TXP is an exciting and collaborative event for passionate game developers, designers, artists, and musicians from all over the world. Participants will have 7 days to work together in teams, designing, developing, and completing a game. This

Summer Game Jam

Summer Game Jam Keynote Presentations

TheXPlace Summer Game Jam features an amazing lineup of expert speakers! Kicking off the exciting Speaker Series on Friday, June 16th is Venk Subramanian, engineering leader. With a wealth of expertise in the tech industry and a proven track record as a coach & mentor, Venk will provide valuable information

TheXplorer June Update

Ignite your summer with a Summer Game Jam, hot jobs, Coffee Chats, and inspiring Keynotes for an unforgettable season of growth and fun! Summer Game Jam Get ready to sizzle with excitement in Summer Game Jam, where we are uniting game developers, designers, artists, and musicians worldwide! Sign up now,

Summer Game Jam

TheXPlace Summer Game Jam

Sign up today to join TheXPlace Summer Game Jam!! We are thrilled to launch this spicy competition, bringing together passionate game developers, designers, artists, musicians, and other game creators from all over the world! TheXPlace Summer Game Jam is going to be a hotbed of creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Teams

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Together We Create A Safe Community

Events Code of Conduct At TheXPlace (TXP), we are committed to maintaining a safe community for professionals of all types. Being part of a professional community should be safe, fair, inclusive, and meaningful for all involved: jobseekers, game companies, and guest speakers. Behavior guidelines are key to making sure you

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Attend Your Next GameDev Event on TheXPlace Events!

At TheXPlace, we believe everyone should have access to opportunities to learn, connect, and grow in their careers. This is especially important in game development, because it is a team sport that calls for every teammate to play their part well! Very few people can create a game alone. Events

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Make friends with Coffee Chats

Register for our upcoming Coffee Chats Don't underestimate how powerful 20 minutes of chatting can be, for both your emotional well-being and your professional development. ‌Our first virtual Coffee Chat will be held May 18th at 3-4pm EDT. ‌‌‌Coffee Chats are cultural gatherings for game developers-- any professional

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Ishai Shamir and Aron Sogor Talk About Product Management and Engineering

Join us May 24th at 8 am PDT (11 am EDT) in a two-for-one chat with experts Ishai Shamir and Aron Sogor. They will share their insights into the integral role of Product Manager within the video game industry and explore the unique push-pull relationship between product management and engineering.

Challenges

Design Contest Winners

Our team quickly fell in love with how friendly the miner is and how dramatic the gemstones were that formed the X.

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Introducing: TheXPlace Events!

We are excited to share with you a new feature of TheXPlace - one that will help you build your skills and network in the video games industry: TheXPlace Events. Events on TheXPlace are a new way to bring our community together safely. We believe that everyone should have access

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Kate Edwards Joins TheXPlace Talks About Culturalization

Edwards, CEO of Geogrify, will discuss the importance of culturalization in video game design and how developers can make sure their games authentically reflect the cultures they are trying to portray while still being fun and engaging.

Challenges

Design Contest — Celebrate the Many Creative Professionals Who Build Video Games

TheXPlace Design Contest Call to Action: Create 2D, 3D, stills or animated, and blow our mind! Winners will be displayed left of our login area and Judge's favorite will be awarded $300.

Industry

Can the broken game credits system be fixed?

Imagine working on a presentation for a couple of weeks and it’s a great success! But, the accolades stop with your boss. Wouldn’t you feel wronged? Of course! Now imagine how you would feel if you had invested a year and didn’t get any credit for it.