G.D.C. Current status of the annual game industry The report was released within the last 24 hours, but it’s not very readable. 2023 was a pretty bad year for game developers, with massive layoffs and studio closures across the industry, including Vanpool, Volition Studios, Brace Yourself Games, Crystal Dynamics, and Free Radical. According to GDC’s latest report, his third in the video game was incredible. Developers are somehow affected by layoffs (via push square).
In fact, it’s just over a third. He said 35% of developers have been “affected by a layoff, either by a layoff within their team or company, or by being laid off themselves.” The most layoffs are always from the critical quality assurance team. So it’s the team that makes sure the game we’re playing works. According to a GDC study, in 2023, 22% of QA developers were fired. Meanwhile, the business and finance sector accounted for only 2% of layoffs.
Around 7% of those GDC spoke to were directly laid off people themselves, and 17% spoke about colleagues who had been laid off. TECHNICAL The numbers speak for themselves with his artist Farhan Noor’s tracker. videogamelayoffs.com (via game idustrybiz).
GDC asked respondents how they felt about the future and found that 56% expressed concern that their employer could experience layoffs in 2024, while a third said they were not worried at all. Ta. Those GDC spoke to blamed many studios for pivoting in the face of the worst of a global pandemic, conglomerates and economic uncertainty.
This is truly humbling, and many people don’t think things will get any better. We have already reported that there will be some layoffs in 2024. Thunderful has reported that there will be a restructuring that will affect 20% of its workforce, and will likely mean that some staff will have to go elsewhere. That, too, is just one of his stories in 2024.
Approximately one-third of developers have switched or were considering switching game engines in the wake of the Unity runtime pricing debacle or prior to this issue. I admit it. However, half of them were not considering switching at all.
84% of developers questioned also said they were concerned about Generative AI, with just 12% saying they had no concerns at all. AI is already a hot topic in the industry, with GDC finding that business, marketing and programming sectors are seeing positive aspects of AI, while more creative sectors such as narrative, visual arts and quality are seeing positive aspects of AI. So that seems highly likely. view it negatively. Square Enix has already started implementing AI into its games, with PS5 and PS4 shooter Foamstars being the latest notable release to feature a small percentage of AI art.