Game Developer Qualifications

[midhunmon]

Hello guys, I am a postgraduate in Electronics and i have done .net windows and web application development for the past 1 year. I love to play games and i would very much love to develop one.
Can i apply for any game programmer jobs with my Qualifications? I am not bad in C and C++ (not too advanced either). Please tell me some books or ebooks which will be useful for studying game development in C, C++, C# .net etc for a beginner. Also some DirectX and openGL books too. I have only done game development using XNA game studio only.

PLEASE Help!

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

You better do M.Tech or MS in related fields.

But the other way is to make a team and create own game engine. If programming is your main aim.
Then you will get a job in other companies, because of your experience in designing one.

In my college itself there is a team from US. These guys dropped out of high paying jobs and created a FPS game engine !