I’ve been hiring programmers recently. A year or two experience wins out over a degree almost any time. I don’t know if there are any developers (or even website administrators) at you current job, but if there are I’d see you if you can start by helping them out, maybe helping out when they’re on leave or picking up little jobs and then you’ll get your foot in the door in no time at all.
Actually the last dev I hired had no experience at all, I just really liked him, and he’s turned out brilliantly.
What games do you make? If you’re actively working on games that are anti dark pattern then that’s the type of game I want to hear about