Hello everyone. My name is Dylan and I'm an 18 year old high school student. I'm going to be starting my CS degree in the fall so I won't be applying for any real jobs for ~4.5 years.

From what I've read, small code samples showing off a clean, elegant, efficient solution to a difficult problem are often a good thing to provide on your resume. But I'm curious, is there any benefit in providing the employer with a closed source, completed, polished game? Not just a 2D arcade game but something of higher complexity like an RTS with networking or a single player 3D RPG.

From my perspective, providing the employer with something like this would show them that I'm serious about game development and I have the passion and skill to complete large, high-quality projects.

So, is a completed game something employers would be interested in seeing? Would they want to have access to the source code too?

Thanks.