Wargaming Forge
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About

At WG Forge we are educating the next generation of game industry professionals in Seoul,Prague,Berlin,Vilnius,Nicosia,Belgrade,Tokyo, andSingapore.

As a student or early career professional, you will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of early career programs and educational courses across different locations.

Forget what you think you know about early career programs. Instead, you will get hands-on experience, develop career-defining skills, and work alongside the most talented people—no coffee runs, we promise.

Career Evolution

Career Evolution

We are a brain hub that offers a range of opportunities to turn ideas into real projects, enabling our people to learn, grow, prosper, and bring the best out of themselves.​

Leading Game Dev Society

Leading Game Dev Society

We are an international video game developer with large-scale franchises. We are passionate about gaming and enjoy creating some of the most popular games in the industry.

Feeling the Presence

Feeling the Presence

You will always feel inspired and empowered. Your impact will be noticed on our amazing games, as there is no better experience than creating products for millions of players.

Building Synergies

Building Synergies

We provide a fun and trusting working environment where you will be supported by top-notch mentors. Our team of experts allows you to learn and succeed, all while being yourself.

Process

Getting into the program of your choice

Find an open educational or early career opportunity
Find an open educational or early career opportunity

from our list of educational courses or early career programs

Register for the program
Register for the program

by filling out the application form

Complete the test task and pass the interview
Complete the test task and pass the interview

for the programs that require so

Complete the program
Complete the program

and don't shy away from paid early career job after finishing some free courses

Receive a job offer
Receive a job offer

and become an employee of the company!

Disciplines

All you've ever dreamt of and more

Data Engineering

Data Engineering

What will you learn?

  • To investigate, test, and put into practice appropriate ML tools and algorithms.
  • To better comprehend data through exploration and visualization, as well as to spot discrepancies in data distribution that might affect a model’s effectiveness when used in practical situations.
  • Support the development and implementation of the Master Data Management Program.
  • Provide Support to any other daily operation tasks.
Graphic Design

Graphic Design

What will you learn?

  • During your time with us, you will receive quality hands-on training that has real-world application.
  • You will get involved in every step of the design process, whilst developing your technical skillset. The creative services manager will guide you on understanding the briefs requirements, utilize the brand’s guidelines, improve your creative process and guide you on how to present design proposals to the audience. You will also be given the opportunity to develop your communication and personal skills through the participation in meetings, discussions and gatherings with internal stakeholders.
Video Editing

Video Editing

What will you learn?

  • Edit footage to a standard level of quality, both audio and visual footage.
  • Work with stakeholders to assist on video projects to meet deadlines.
  • Shoot and record footage from in-game to supplement engagement content.
  • Stay up to date with industry standards and video and audio production processes.
  • Learn how to use in-game tools to capture exciting cinematics to be used in promotional videos.
Publishing Content Management

Publishing Content Management

What will you learn?

  • Develop strong writing skills in a fast-paced environment by creating engaging and informative content for a global audience.
  • Acquire an in-depth understanding of content and project management systems.
  • Hone technical skills, including HTML, CSS, MS Office suite, and Adobe software, which will enhance your ability to create high-quality content that meets industry standards and best practices.
  • Work within an international and dynamic publishing team, allowing you to develop your cross-cultural communication and collaboration skills, collaborate with various internal teams and work with stakeholders outside of player engagement.
  • Learn how to manage your time effectively and prioritize tasks in a time-pressured environment, which will help you develop valuable skills in project management and improve your ability to work efficiently in any fast-paced work setting.
Community Management

Community Management

What will you do?

  • Support the daily execution and growth across social, community, and influencer programs, set priorities, and do what it takes to achieve the team’s strategic goals
  • Measure, monitor, and create detailed reports on community sentiment, concerns, and suggestions as well as community engagement performance
  • Work with other community managers to gather input on regional and cultural differences to ensure campaigns are tailored to be impactful and appropriate regionally and locally
  • Research the latest trends and best practices to stay up to date on community trend
  • Work closely with the WoWS Community/CS/Content team to develop a thorough understanding of the operations of World of Warships
Machine Learning Operations

Machine Learning Operations

What will you learn?

  • You will learn how to solve problems or mitigate risks arising in the context of development, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of real-life Machine Learning projects at the scale of millions of predictions per day.
  • You will gain or improve a wide range of skills ranging from simply contributing to a project via a git or squeezing the most out of the (existent) code in terms of computational efficiency to extending the in-house model quality monitoring system.
Publishing Project Management

Publishing Project Management

What will you do?

  • You will learn key industry tools for successfully planning and tracking your projects and events and effective techniques for gathering, analyzing, and presenting the results and data.
  • You’ll learn how to cooperate with other teams and ensure everyone is heard.
  • We’ll master how to stay on track with your projects, but also, we’ll see the importance of being agile and how to adjust plans as needed to ensure on-time delivery.
  • Just be ready to become an expert in game industry standards, team collaboration, as well as project planning and coordination.
3D Art

3D Art

What will you do?

  • Improve your skills in modeling, normal map creation, and texturing and better understand PBS
  • Improve your artistic skills, better understand composition, and learn how to properly render surface textures
  • Work with textiles in Marvelous Designer, create normal maps, and render in Marmoset
  • Familiarize yourself with Substance Painter and touch upon photogrammetry
  • Create a 3D model for the game as part of the graduation project
IT Business Analytics

IT Business Analytics

Under the guidance of experienced mentors, you will not only acquire theoretical knowledge on Business Analysis in IT but will be able to reinforce it through practical application, you will learn how games are developed and participate in creating features for a product with a multimillion audience.

Partnership Development

Partnership Development

Developing relationships with key stakeholders, primarily in the non-profit sector.

Your role will involve proposing new project ideas and coordinating a variety of different partnership activities, with the goal of building a strong partner brand.

Marketing

Marketing

What will you learn?

  • Basic knowledge in Affiliate Marketing
  • The whole process of affiliate management from onboarding to optimization
  • Key product metrics
Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

What will you do?

  • Learn how game and web applications are designed at the engineering and technical levels and how this affects their testing approaches
  • Learn what quality assurance is, how it is performed at each stage of game and web application development, and acquire the basic skills necessary for working as a QA engineer
  • Learn and assimilate game testing methods and approaches based on their engineering and technical features
  • Learn how web application testing is performed, how their specifics affect the performed tests, and acquire basic testing skills
Game LiveOps

Game LiveOps

What will you do?

  • Plan and launch in-game specials capable of achieving project KPIs
  • Study the impact of Live Ops activities and game changes on strategic KPIs
  • Learn about tools and approaches used by Wargaming to create the best gaming experience
  • Analyze marketing and monetization campaigns across various channels, partners, platforms, and markets
Maintenance

Maintenance

What will you do?

  • Learn the basics of software engineering and become familiar with the architecture and principles of operating systems
  • Practice skills to use when joining a new team
  • Find the best solutions under the guidance of your mentors
  • Create a graduation project to present in the final class
Front-End Engineering

Front-End Engineering

What will you do?

  • Jog your memory and systematize your knowledge of algorithms, data structures, computer networks, and network protocols
  • Learn and consolidate programming skills in JavaScript, modern layout approaches, as well as debugging, optimization, and testing tools applications
  • Become familiar with the frameworks and technologies used in real projects of the company, project development using Chromium Embedded Framework, and GameFace
  • The cherry on top—Develop in a real-world environment with a project team, requirements, and code reviews from mentors
Social Media

Social Media

What will you do?

  • Help manage our social media channels
  • Come up with original posts to promote the product and engage our followers/players
  • Write messaging engaging to our audiences and correlating with our company culture
  • Create and edit basic assets using Adobe products
  • Contribute to our broader plans and be a part of the team brainstorms
  • Communicate directly with players when needed
Motion Design

Motion Design

What will you do?

  • Improve your skills in Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D
  • Learn more about pipeline in motion design and how to work in it using necessary features, plugins, scripts, and other tips and tricks
  • Participate in master classes where mentors share their professional experience, tell you about the nuances of running projects, and help analyze real case studies
  • Develop your artistic skills by learning the balance between creativity and project requirements and being in tune with the product’s style and theme
  • Create your graduation project based on the client’s proposed concept and script
2D Art

2D Art

What will you learn?

  • How to be a 2D artist in the gaming industry
  • Asset creation pipeline using different techniques and approaches
  • In-game assets, landscapes, and promo art creation
  • Complex approaches to art creation, from icons to HD map loading screens
  • Proper 2D rendering with 3D tools as a base
  • Environment design, matte painting, camouflage, and style creation
Game Design

Game Design

What will you do?

  • Learn the history of the gaming industry, the evolution of games and genres, and the basics of game design
  • Learn about player behavior: their types, emotions, psychology, and expectations
  • Touch upon narrative design
  • Learn about the creation process of game levels, what level design is and its basic components, and the approach to in-game locations design
  • Learn the integration and collaboration specifics of game design within the work processes of PM, UX, Art, PDM, Dev, and QA
Data Science

Data Science

What will you do?

  • Develop models that provide insights into our games and player behavior
  • Prepare models for deployment in production
  • Present findings to technical and business audiences in a clear and informative manner
  • Acquire experience working with cutting-edge machine learning models and techniques
  • Learn or improve your programming skills (Python, SQL)
  • Gain experience working with Big Data (Hadoop, Snowflake)
Web/UX Design

Web/UX Design

What will you do?

  • Learn the basics of game development processes and various game mechanics, how games are developed, and on what basis certain decisions are made
  • Learn how to use the Figma tools in detail; create components, design information architecture, and simple scenarios in wireframes; work with visuals and animation; and create complete screens and user flow scripts in Figma
  • Acquire knowledge about interface usability testing, its testing processes in the WG UX Laboratory, and how to solve encountered problems
  • Gain experience by working on real UX cases and potential tasks from the World of Tanks backlog
Software Engineering

Software Engineering

What will you do?

  • Expand your knowledge in several programming languages (C++, Python)
  • Learn more about algorithms, databases, and operational systems
  • Understand computer networks and design patterns
  • Create your own small game as part of the graduation project
Technical Art

Technical Art

What will you do?

  • How to understand the needs of artists to create tools that simplify and support their day-to-day technical work
  • Graphic pipeline and physically based rendering
  • Basic model and texture creation using game engines
  • Pipeline and approach creation for content and space optimization
Visual Effects

Visual Effects

What will you learn?

  • Learn about the creation of game effects and create smoke and fire effects from scratch using Unreal Engine
  • Learn to select material to create effects, textures from photos, and animated textures from simulations
  • Learn to use different shader features to control effects and create effects based on 3D models
  • Possess a visual effects portfolio with the skills of a beginner VFX artist that will allow you to successfully start a career in game design
Data Analytics

Data Analytics

What will you learn?

  • What product lifecycle and product analytics tasks are
  • Data-driven approaches and modern technological solutions for data analyzing and problem solving at all lifecycle stages
  • How to build a system of logging, collecting, and processing initial data
  • How to discover exciting insights, check hypotheses, and find analytical dependencies in structured and unstructured data by digging deeper into applied mathematics
  • How to set goals and draw conclusions for research problems to create the most useful analytical reports
Early Career

Wargaming Forge believes that educating the next generation of gaming industry professionals is essential to ensure continued success.

As such, WG Forge offers a range of opportunities for talented individuals to complete a unique, first-class early career programs at a large international game development studio. Learn on the job from top-notch experts while gaining hands-on experience and taking the first step of your game development career.

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Type:

Part-time

Program duration:

4–6 months

Summer cycle start:

June–July

Winter cycle start:

January–February

Remuneration:

Yes

Locations
Disciplines
Working Student
2D Art

2D Art

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Berlin
Trainee
Community Management

Community Management

Ongoing Ongoing
Tokyo
Working Student
Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Berlin
Intern
Partnership Development

Partnership Development

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Prague
Intern
IT Business Analytics

IT Business Analytics

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Prague
Intern
Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Automation

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Vilnius
Intern
Software Engineering

Software Engineering Platform

April
Coming Soon Coming Soon
Vilnius
Trainee
Community Management

Community Management

Ongoing Ongoing
Seoul
Trainee
Community Management

Community Management

Ongoing Ongoing
Singapore
Community Management

Community Management

August 21 - September 18, 2023
Finished Finished
Singapore
Community Management

Community Management

July 28 - September 1, 2023
Finished Finished
Tokyo
Community Management

Community Management

November 9 - December 4, 2023
Finished Finished
Prague
Data Science

Data Science

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Software Engineering

Software Engineering

Feb 14 - March 7 2023 (until 12:00, UTC+2)
Finished Finished
Vilnius
Machine Learning Operations

Machine Learning Operations

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Prague
Data Analytics

Data Analytics

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Technical Art

Technical Artist

February 14 – March 7, 2023 (until 12:00, UTC+2)
Finished Finished
Belgrade
Web/UX Design

Web/UX Design

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Technical Art

Data Engineering

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Marketing

Affiliate Marketing Manager

Feb 21 - March 14
Finished Finished
Vilnius
Graphic Design

Graphic Design

April 19 – May 10, 2023 (until 12:00 pm, UTC+3)
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Intern
Software Engineering

Software Engineering

May 2 – June 15, 2022
Finished Finished
Prague
Intern
Technical Art

Technical Art

May 16 – June 13, 2022
Finished Finished
Vilnius
Intern
Web/UX Design

UX Design

May 16 – June 13, 2022
Finished Finished
Nicosia
Intern
Web/UX Design

UX Design

May 16 – June 13, 2022
Finished Finished
Prague
Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

May 2 – June 15, 2022
Finished Finished
Prague
Intern
Technical Art

Technical Art

May 16 – June 13, 2022
Finished Finished
Prague
Intern
Data Analytics

Game Data Analytics

November 9 – December 30, 2021
Finished Finished
Vilnius
3D Art

3D Art

January 11 – February 19, 2021
Finished Finished
Prague

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Educational Programs

Forge education course is an immersive 8–12 weeks free-of-charge program that enables early career professionals to gain insight into the range of gamedev work.

You will learn directly from world-class mentors and get familiar with the Wargaming products, tech, and people. Students who successfully finish the program will be considered for an employment opportunity.

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Type:

Online courses

Course duration:

3 months

Spring cycle start:

February–March

Fall cycle start:

September–October

Disciplines
Locations

Providing opportunities worldwide

WG Forge offers a range of opportunities for talented individuals to complete a unique, first-class internship at a large international game development studio, all that from one of our many offices around the globe and each home to unique people you will love to work with. Learn on the job from top-notch experts while gaining hands-on experience and taking the first step of your game dev career.

Prague
Prague
Berlin
Berlin
Vilnius
Vilnius
Nicosia
Nicosia
Belgrade
Belgrade
Singapore
Singapore
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Ongoing Programs
Who we are

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher.

We might not see them at all times, but behind the scenes of Wargaming and WG Forge is a dedicated team of brilliant minds and devoted professionals passionate about bringing the best experience to the favorite titles of millions of players every day. Along the way, they strive to recruit and form new talents that are eager to contribute to the game development industry.

The sky is the limit when you make millions of players happy.
World of Tanks
World of Warships
World of Warplanes
World of Tanks Blitz
Master of Orion
25+ years of game development experience

25+ years of game development experience

15 gaming products at different stages of development

15 gaming products at different stages of development

15 offices around the globe

15 offices around the globe

200 countries where our hits are played

200 countries where our hits are played

Testimonials

Beyond words: their voice, their truths

The WG Forge program helped me kickstart my career as a software developer. It introduced me to the gaming industry as a developer, but it gave me invaluable experience that would help me anywhere I went. And as expected, working with games is fun!

Software Engineer, Nicosia
Pavlos Georgakoudes

The mission of the WG program is to introduce young people to the gaming industry. I work in a strong team with a friendly environment. Everyone is willing to assist one another when needed. The program gave me knowledge that will last for a lifetime.

Software Engineer, Nicosia
Sophia Charalambous

This program has definitely exceeded my expectations. I receive constant feedback on every part of my work. It helps me learn and improve in the most efficient way. I really think that for me, the internship here was the best way to start my career.

Data Scientist, Prague
Alena Pavlova

The WG Forge program helped me learn responsibility and teamwork and led me to a permanent position at Wargaming. I gained new skills and am now confidently able to handle any task given to me, either by myself or with the help of our team.

Junior Software Engineer, Nicosia
Christina Missirian
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