Free 16-week skills training
Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving you the opportunity to build up games sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview.
You bring the dream and effort. We provide the training, coaching and job interview - completely free.
This Skills Bootcamp offers diverse developers the opportunity to get the skills, portfolio, profile and connections to level-up in the games industry.
Improve your programming and game engine skills. Build better prototypes. Connect with employers. Support you while you interview and negotiate salaries. Mastered will help you all the way.
2,000+
current jobs openings in the UK*
£52K
average game developer salary
66%
growth in the industry since 2019
*Games Jobs Live
Get an interview. Not just do a course.
The goal of most schools are to get you to complete a course. The goal of this Skills Bootcamp is to teach, mentor, and coach you until you get an interview. We will help you identify the roles and games studios that are right for you and personalise your training to your career.
No need to job search alone
It's easy to access learning content online. Our mentors will help you with the hard part - structure, feedback, accountability, motivation, and focus. With 1-2-1 mentoring and coaching calls, plus interviewing support, we put a whole team around you as you work to get the job you want.
Train in the skills industry needs
Our pathways are designed after a rigorous analysis of the jobs market and in partnership with employers. Using our Skills Scorecards you will be set work that helps you learn and hone the necessary skills required for your dream job.
Your path to well-paid jobs in the games industry
Mastering game engines and C++ or C#, is your passport into the games industry or even a senior promotion. Whether you want to work on the next AAA games title, serious games, or mobile games, there are incredible job opportunities in the UK right now for game development talent.
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The games industry continues to grow and is desperate for fresh, diverse talent with sound programming knowledge, and game engine skills, like Unity or Unreal. This Skills Bootcamp has been designed to get you one of those jobs.
Perri Lewis
Co-founder and CEO, Mastered
Your journey ahead
The Skills Bootcamp is designed to mirror the real workplace with projects, 1-2-1 feedback, and working with actual production workflows and tools. Learning is important, but getting you the job is the main goal.
You will be matched with a technical mentor based on the job you are aiming for. Using your personalised Skills Scorecards, you will discuss your current competencies and where you need to be at the end of 16 weeks. From this, you will be set work that helps you learn and hone the necessary skills.
You will attend group workshops every other week, tackling topics such as communicating your ideas, giving feedback to others, understanding your values, communicating your unique selling point and building your network. You will complete a Clifton Strengths analysis to understand the strengths you can offer employers.
Every four weeks we take a day to come together and work in a live production environment. Create work, make decisions rapidly, meet fellow creators and get feedback on what you have achieved – plus, learn how to balance the emotions that come with creating work you love to deadline.
If required, you'll work with our mindset coaches to improve your confidence, lift your ambitions, overcome barriers and find your purpose.
During your 16 weeks, you will work with your mentor and career coach to build real-world projects and improve your profile to get noticed by recruiters.
Find your first job with support to write your CV and LinkedIn, prepare your portfolio, get ready for interviews, and everything else that comes with a job search.
As part of Skills Bootcamps, we organise an interview for you with one of our partners. You’ll take everything you’ve learnt and present your best self to a potential employer.
Get ready for your new future in games.
Built with industry, for industry
This games programmer bootcamp has been designed specifically to ensure you get the job or the promotion you're looking for. Everything is aligned around the real jobs that the industry needs filling.
Where our graduates are placed
Meet the team who will be in your corner until the first day in your new career.
You will have 1-to-1 and group video calls, live online classes, personal feedback, technical help and emotional support from a team of people invested in your success.
Michael Mark 
Technical Mentor
I’ll assess your skill level, understand your career goals, then build a pathway for you to get you job-ready from a technical perspective. I’ll set you tasks to build your skills, give you feedback on how well you’ve executed the task and support you to build a project for your portfolio.
Zoe Brown
Success Manager
I’m here from day one of your bootcamp, to day one of your first job. I’ll make sure you are getting the most from the bootcamp at every stage, whether it be setting up your personalised schedule to sharing articles and events you might love.
Stephen Arthur
Career Coach
I will make sure that when the time comes to apply for a job, you will be a standout candidate. Whether preparing for interviews, helping you negotiate, or keeping you motivated, I will be at your side throughout the whole experience.
Nishe Patel
Interview Coach
I’m here to help you present your best self at interviews. I will work with you on tackling topics such as building your confidence, communicating your ideas and any other challenges that you have faced before.
Over 5,000 creators from 95 different countries
We're proud of all the creative professionals, from every walk of life, who have been through one of our career accelerators since 2015. With our new games programming bootcamp, we want to continue this commitment to finding diverse voices and original talent who've been shut out for too long. Outsiders, misfits and changemakers need apply.
Alessandro Manghi
Unreal Engine Artist
Bruno Wilkinson
Game Programmer
Kimberly Gyambibi
3D Visualizer
Ismail Aljanabi
3D Technical Artist
Loretta Lok
Game Developer
Krisztian Bajko
Games programmer
Oskar Korbut
Design Coordinator
Tara Cannon-Young
Environment Designer
Srinath Upadhyayula
Software Engineer
Zilla Meetun
Unreal Engine Developer
Yacob Reyneke
C++ Programmer
Mattia Grigolato
Unreal Generalist
Victor Rasuly
Games developer (Alumni)
My time at Mastered has been nothing but fantastic. I came into Mastered with absolutely no programming experience whatsoever, to taking on the role of a Technical Game Designer within just the span of 5-6 months, thanks to the help of my mentors!
Richard Leck
Technical artist (Alumni)
The team at Mastered is just amazing. I was working a full-time job and was going through a tough time mentally, but they were so patient with any issues I had and pushed me to find a way around problems in ways I never thought about.
Dean Isseyegh
Gameplay programmer (Alumni)
The one-on-one mentoring sessions with an experienced Unity developer were extremely useful. Even as someone with lots of programming knowledge, there was still a whole load of game-specific technology, terms, and programming paradigms I had never heard of and just knowing about them gave me the ability to pick them up and learn about them quickly.
Applications closed
We are sorry we do not have any more places available for this Skills Bootcamp and are not accepting any more applications.
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