Many of the jobs on offer from 15 gaming companies were for research and development, game design, graphics art, and software engineering. But some jobs offered the chance to play computer games for a living with a salary of around NT$35,000 (US$1,194) a month, which is about average in Taiwan.

"We're looking for around 50 people, including gamers, programmers, graphics artists and research and development," said Jamesina Lin, a representative at Chinese Gamer International, one of Taiwan's biggest online gaming companies.

People hired to play games would be heavily involved in game development, she said.

Chinese Gamer and other companies teamed with Taiwanese to host the Taiwan Game Job fair at the same time as Taipei's biggest gaming show.

"We had over 2,000 people apply at the job fair on Saturday and over 2,600 applications in all," said Charlene Chang, spokesperson for , which ran the job fair.