Q:

What are the hot dev positions in game industry?

What are the hot postions which are hard to get in game industry?
Client/Server/Game Engine/Networking and database or else?

A:

Technical artists are rare as hens teeth. That is, someone who is primarily an artist, but who can also script/code and understands the shader tech underpinning the art stuff.
Also, good shader graphics programmers are still pretty rare, i.e. someone who can create some of the more impressive visual effects, and optimise the rendering performance.

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Good audio programmers seem quite rare.  However this may not be a hard job to get because most game studios undervalue audio.

A:

Any programmer who knows that this is not a const pointer:
const MyClass* myObject = getObject();

Is a hot property.
Seriously: good programmers are hard to come by and there's a lot of inexperienced guys in the videogames industry.

