GameDev: where to go to work?

Recently, games and applications have become very popular in social networks. In addition to increasing the time spent by visitors on the site, applications bring a good income to their creators and owners of social. networks. Social games brought last year a total revenue of about $ 30 million (of course on the Russian market). As a result, many companies rushed into the development of social games. Now large holdings and small studios are engaged in this, but as in the entire IT industry, companies engaged in a relatively new direction feel the need for experienced employees.

I made a small overview of vacancies in firms of developers of games for social networks (collecting them by company). Especially for those who are looking for work in the game development industry. The list of companies under consideration includes companies from Top-10 for April compiled by socialplay.ru , as well as several companies that are still developing.

Astrum

City: Moscow, representative office in Germany
Number of projects: 70 games for various social networks (Bubbles, City, Favorite farm, Crouching panda ...)
Number of users: 43.2 million
Social Network: MyMir
Vacancies: Flash programmer (actionscript 3. 0) from 70,000 to 110,000 rubles
Programmer C / C ++ from 70,000 to 90,000 rubles
C ++ programmer graphics from 65,000 to 85,000 rubles
Linux administrator from 70 000 rub
Java developer
Description: Astrum Online Entertainment combines studios such as AstrumNival, ITTerritory, Time Zero, Dark Joker - Games and NIKITA. Online ”and in December last year, the company became part of Mail.ru. Estimated total holding income for 2008 amounted to more than $ 50 million. The company operates with game projects in the UK, Germany, Turkey.
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i-jet

City: Ekaterinburg (Publisher), Chelyabinsk (Development Studio), as well as in America Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley and in China, Beijing.
Number of projects: 28 social projects (Happy farmer, Animal farm, City gangs)
Number of users: more than 30 million
Social network: MoiMir, VKontakte, MirTesen, Facebook, Odnoklassniki
Jobs: Producer game projects
Description: i-Jet is another undoubted leader among Russian developers of games for social networks. The company consists of 50 employees and has almost 5 years of game development experience. It is noteworthy that i-Jet games were the first to appear on the odnoklassniki.ru resource, where only recently games appeared and there is no possibility for third-party developers to host their application. The game "Happy Farmer" earned about 20 mln dollars last year, which is 2/3 of the national income from social games.

Progrestar

City: Moscow, Tolyatti
Number of projects: 10 (Restaurateur, Fazenda, Galawars)
Number of users: nearly 14 million
Social network: VKontakte, MoiMir
Vacancies: no open vacancies
Description: The company has 10 finished projects, and at the moment there is no information about free vacancies. The games of Progrestar are played by users from more than 30 countries of the world.

Catalyst apps

City: Moscow
Number of projects: 1 (Cocktail to a friend)
Number of users: more than 9 million
Social network: VKontakte
Vacancies: no open vacancies
Description: The application "Cocktail to a friend" is the second most popular among all applications on the Vkontakte network. In addition to internal services, the application actively earns on advertising goods within the application.

Exteer

City: St. Petersburg
Number of projects: 8 applications and 17 localizations (Greeting cards, Keyboard racing, Naked truth)
Number of users: about 8.5 million
Social network: MoiMir, Vkontakte, Facebook
Vacancies: no vacancies found
Description: Exteer develops and publishes online entertainment services for social networks.

Playlock

City: Moscow
Number of projects: 10 (Town, Robinson, Middle Ages)
Number of users: over 6.5 million
Social network: MoiMir, VKontakte and Facebook.
Jobs: Flash-programmer to develop online games. 80000 rub.,
PHP programmer in an online game development company. 60000 rub.,
Artist-designer in the company for the development of online games 50,000 rubles.,
Game designer in the company for the development of online games 40,000 rubles.
Description: Company foundation in 2009. According to the company itself, PlayFlock is from the first Russian developers who entered the western market. The staff consists of 20 people.

Creara Games

City: Moscow
Number of projects: 5 (Fish farmer, Pokemon, Monopoly)
Number of users: almost 6 million
Social network: MoiMir, VKontakte, MirTesen
Vacancies: no open vacancies found
Description: Company foundation in 2005. Creara Games is a division of a small fund that invests in information technology. The main activity of Creara Games is the import and localization of foreign projects for Russia, as well as its own developments.

Pixonic

City: Moscow
Number of projects: 7 (Mercenaries, Knights of the round table)
Number of users: about 3 million
Social network: VKontakte
Jobs: Flex programmer, willing to cooperate with everyone who wants to work in the development of social games.
Description: Pixonic Studio, in addition to developing social games, is engaged in promotional applications for brands.

Madgaming

City: Perm
Number of projects: 7 applications
Number of users: no accurate information
Social network: VKontakte
Jobs: Flash programmer on the remote
Description: The company was founded in December 2009, according to the forecasts of the company by the end of the year they plan to release at least 20 applications. We are also ready to cooperate with partners, developers of social games.

Drimmi

City: Moscow
Number of projects: 1 beta testing (Fish place)
Number of users: 350 thousand
Social network: VKontakte
Jobs:
Head of Development
Game designer
Lead artist
Tester / QA engineer
C ++ developer
Flash AS3 developer
Description: The company founded in September 2009 is actively developing, according to the head of Nikita Sherman at the end of 2010 Drimmi will be the most popular developer of social games. We'll see.

But, in fact, our small company, which is not yet very popular, but is trying very hard. (smile). In the near future, it is planned to publish applications in all major social networks.

Kama games

City: Vladivostok
Number of projects: 2 (Sea Battle Classic, Texas Poker)
Number of users: over 200 thousand
Social network: VKontakte soon
Jobs: Programmer, Designer, Flash programmer (well, and any other patient game development professional)
Description: A young team of social game developers, several projects at the testing stage, as well as plans to create their own social network for poker players.

As a result, we see that almost all companies are looking for new employees. And it is absolutely independent of the region: whether it is Moscow or Vladivostok.
Given the fact that game development is growing by leaps and bounds, the number of vacancies will only increase ... and what programmer does not want to make his game? ;)

Yes, it will be very good if in the comments there are still gamedev vacancies that can be added to the post.