Personal North Star

For GDC 2025's Game Career Seminar

Overview: If you ask a dozen game developers to take you through their career history, you'll get a dozen different answers. Working in games takes you on weird paths, through unexpected upsets, opportunities, and revelations. In Personal North Star, games maker Ted DiNola discusses how to think critically about how to choose your next steps, how to think about growing your craft, what to look for in work opportunities, how to set your path in line with your goals, and how to accept that your goals are constantly evolving.

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Game Career Seminar: Personal North Star

If you ask a dozen game developers to take you through their career history, you'll get a dozen different answers. Working in games takes you on weird paths, through unexpected upsets, opportunities, and revelations. In Personal North Star, games...