Hiring Your First Game Developer: What to Look For

Here’s our take on hiring your first game developer: what to look for, based on what we’ve actually seen work across the projects we’ve shipped at Enixo.

Why this step gets skipped

Hiring Your First Game Developer: What to Look For is one of those parts of production that everyone agrees matters, right up until deadline pressure hits — and it's usually the first thing cut, quietly, without anyone deciding to cut it.

What good looks like in practice

The teams that do this well build it into the schedule as a real line item with owners and deadlines, not a 'we'll get to it' afterthought squeezed in before ship.

How we handle it at Enixo

We treat this as part of the core production pipeline on every project, not an optional extra — because the cost of skipping it always shows up later, usually at the worst possible time.