The organizers of the Game Developers Conference, together with the analytical agency Omdia, conducted a survey of three thousand video game developers to identify the main trends in the industry. Here are the results they got:
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35% of respondents experienced layoffs over the past year, of which 7% were fired themselves, and the rest witnessed the layoffs of colleagues or acquaintances
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Testers and quality control department employees suffered the most from layoffs (22% of respondents were fired). The least likely are business and finance specialists (2% of respondents were fired)
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56% of developers are worried that they will be laid off in the near future
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33% of developers use Unreal Engine or Unity when creating games. Curiously, the same number of respondents (33%) are planning to change or have already changed the engine
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While 48% of respondents said their companies have implemented accessibility measures into their current projects, 27% said their companies have not implemented any of these features. The most popular accessibility features are optional subtitles, colorblind mode, content warnings, and modes for people with phobias
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76% use Twitter/X, with 97% of them expressing a negative opinion of the social network and its owner Elon Musk
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26% of AAA developers have games adapted into films or TV series
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Young developers are 157% more likely to support unionization than their older colleagues
