AAA Games
AAA games describes production at the largest scale in the industry: big teams, long schedules and heavily specialised roles.
When a posting names AAA games, it is describing the production, not a tool. Teams run into the hundreds, a project spans years, and the work is cut into narrow specialisms instead of one person covering a whole discipline. A single feature passes through design, engineering, art, audio, QA and certification before it reaches a player, and a large share of the content is produced with external partners.
For a candidate that changes what the daily work looks like. Milestones, reviews and sign-offs take real time, pipelines and naming conventions are fixed rather than negotiable, and shipping means console certification and day-one patches. Studios that use the tag are usually looking for someone who has already worked inside that machinery and can estimate, document and hand over cleanly.
It is a scale marker, so it says nothing about genre or engine. Those appear as separate tags on the same posting.
Where these positions are: Munich (1 position)
