But regardless of where you’re applying and what your dream role is, in Wat’s mind, the most important qualities to possess are a passion for gaming and a hunger for learning how they are made. “What’s really cool about this day and age is that there are free engines you can download — Unity is one that is super cool — and then you can hop on YouTube and look at hundreds of videos of tutorials,” she said. “If I was talking to somebody who didn’t have any formalized game experience but wanted to become a producer and they told me, ‘Hey, I’m working on these side projects, I’m building a game in Unity, and I have a basic understanding of the pipeline looks like working from an art standpoint, design standpoint, QA…’ those are the types of applicants that are really, really interesting.”