Try and use: Gamer jobs open to Taiwan Game Show

Over a dozen companies bandaged together with a job service online in Taipei during the weekend to try people for computer games and online sectors on the island. Some of the work also pay players to play full time.

Many of the jobs offered by 15 companies to 2011 Taipei Game Show were for research and development, game design, graphic arts and software engineering. But some jobs offered the possibility to play computer games to live with a salary of NT $ 35,000 (US $ 1.194) around a month, which is about average in Taiwan.

"We are trying for about 50 people, including gamers, programmers, graphic artists, research and development," said Jamesina Lin, a representative Chinese Gamer International, one of the largest online gaming companies in Taiwan.

People hired to play the games would be heavily involved in the development of games, he said.

Chinese Gamer and other companies working with Taiwanese employment websites, job bank, to host the work of Taiwan game fair at the same time as the largest game exhibition in Taipei.

"We had over 2,000 people apply over 2,600 applications around, and the job fair on Saturday," said Charlene Chang, spokesperson for the Bank, who ran the job right.

Taiwanese companies are serious about their work.

Although the local game of Taiwan market is growing at a fast clip, the end goal for most Taiwanese companies is reaching the massive audience in China, which shares a language and a culture similar to Taiwan.

Taiwan game industry was worth NT $ 42.2 billion last year, up nearly 20 percent in 2009, when he reached NT $ 35.4 billion, according to figures from the Office for industrial development of the Taiwan Government. The range of ways to consume games has stimulated the growth in the industry, PC, game console and online games for smartphones, games on social networking sites like Facebook and more.

Potential market of Taiwan game is much lower in China. While all the people of Taiwan is estimated at just over 23 million, China is 1.33 billion, with 457 million Internet users at the end of last year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.