Even if you can't show the game you worked on, you can still talk about the tasks you completed and the things you learned from your experience working there. Talking about what you did and how you'd improve the process given the chance to do it over again is the best way to convey your skills. We hiring managers will be able to recognize it when we see it. Game recognizes game.

There's a well-known cognitive phenomenon called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It's most well-known for describing how people who are not good at a skill tend to vastly overestimate their own skill at that skill, but the converse is also true - because the ability to estimate one's skill is directly tied to the skill level itself, it means that those who are skilled are easily able to identify others who are also skilled. Talk about what you did, the tradeoffs and issues you had to consider, why you ultimately made the choice you did, and what you would consider doing differently if you had the option to do it again. It's really hard to fake that kind of experience in front of experts, even if you don't have a playable game to show for it.

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