VR / XR developers and creators are in-demand. Now is the time to retrain.

Free^* 16-week technical training. Guaranteed interview.

Career outcome: XR programmer, VR/AR programmer

Skills you will develop: Unity engine/C#

Fully online

Job support guarantee

Industry mentoring

Your schedule

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This Skills Bootcamp offers diverse developers the opportunity to gain the required skills, portfolio, profile and connections to fast track your way into the games industry.

Mastered will help you all the way. Develop your programming and game engine skills. Build better prototypes. Connect you with employers. Support you while you interview. Help secure better jobs and salaries. If you've got the talent, passion and commitment to succeed, Mastered will help with the rest.

1,000+

current jobs openings in the UK*

£49K

average VR/XR developer salary

66%

growth in the industry since 2019

*Indeed

Free 16-week skills training

Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving you the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview.

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

Unity or Unreal programming skills is your passport to success in the XR/VR industry. Whether you want to make games or tell stories; build immersive experiences or join a startup; work for an agency or in a software company; there are incredible job opportunities in the UK right now in virtual and extended reality. From mastering your technical skills to applying for jobs, to ace-ing your interview, we will be at your side.

REAL-TIME ENGINE PROGRAMMER

INTERACTIVE XR PRODUCER

XR TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Junior Gameplay Programmer

Metaverse XR Architect

The VR/XR industry continues to grow and is desperate for fresh, diverse talent with sound programming knowledge, and game engine skills, like Unity and Unreal. This Skills Bootcamp has been designed to get you one of those jobs.

Perri Lewis
Co-founder and CEO, Mastered

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.

Weekly technical mentoring and tasks

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.

Fortnightly interview preparation sessions

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.

Monthly creator challenges

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.

1-2-1 sessions with your coach

If required, you'll work with our mindset coaches to improve your confidence, lift your ambitions, overcome barriers and find your purpose.

Build an industry-ready portfolio and profile

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.

Job search workshops with your career coach

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.

Prepare for your guaranteed interview

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.

Your first day in the job

Get ready for your new future in games.

This bootcamp has been designed specifically to ensure you leave ready for the real world of work. Everything is aligned around the real jobs that the industry needs filling.

Detailed job market analysis

Our pathways are the result of a rigorous analysis of job demand. Current open vacancies, expected salaries, forecast job growth, skill shortages and industry opinion are just some of the factors we study to ensure our bootcamps match the real industry demand.

Curriculum designed for jobs

We have developed a Skills Scorecard after consulting extensively with hiring managers, recruiters and senior industry leads to ensure we focus on the skills and capabilities the industry needs. We constantly adapt and tailor the materials to fit the job and career that is your goal.

Created like a studio, not a school

Small groups, project-based learning, personal time management, ownership of your own goals, industry-standard communication tools, the bootcamp is designed to replicate the real world of work, so you can hit the ground running when you start your new career.

Hiring partners

We work with VFX studios, VR/XR studios, Games Studios and Architecture Studios to place our talent in jobs. Large or boutique, London-based or nationwide, in-person or remote working, we help you find the right fit for you.

Where our graduates are placed

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.

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 XR developer 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

Victory Rasuly

August 2021 cohort

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.

To qualify for a completely-free bootcamp place, you must:

Be born before 31st August 2004
Have the right to work in the UK
Live in England
Have coding or 3D software experience
Demonstrate a passion for games
Want to change jobs within six months
Be able to dedicate 15 hours/week

Government funding is available across different regions in England, with some counties having more free places than others. If you are not in an area where funding is available, our admissions team will guide you through different payment options, including where you pay nothing upfront and pay out of future earnings.

The Skills Bootcamp includes all of the following -

Course materials
Private Slack group
Dedicated success manager
1-2-1 support
Job search support
Creator challenges
Calls with personal mentor
Interview coaching
Live industry talks

We are sorry we do not have any more places available for this Skills Bootcamp and are not accepting any more applications.

Free^* 16-week technical training. Guaranteed interview.