if the game is just made with just AI it’s gonna be garbage, there is a fine line in using AI and making something good, and mig companies are stupid, so i don’t think they can
I just graduated with a BS in Game Programming. I already feel I’m never getting a job in the industry.
I have a friend who has been in game dev for about 5 years. He’s just gotten used to the feeling that every day might be his last day. He once found out he lost his job by reading a news article announcing cutbacks and cancellations.
Also, in 5 years, no game he has worked on has ever been completed. They’ve all been cancelled or the company went bankrupt. So he’s also gotten used to feeling like his work is meaningless…but your experience could be different!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Around the same time the survey was being conducted, Unity announced its disastrous runtime fee policy, angering a host of indie developers, before walking parts of it back.
“We’ve thought about switching to Godot — or making our own [game engine] — to not have to worry about shady business practices or the whims of shareholders,” read one anonymous response quoted in the survey.
With employer concerns about the pandemic easing, companies are instituting return-to-office (RTO) mandates, which some developers believe are having a negative impact on morale and the industry at large.
While the return-to-office policies range from a full five-day work week to a hybrid schedule, the survey found that having any kind of mandatory RTO resulted in developer dissatisfaction.
“The vast majority were opposed to a mandated RTO for 3 days per week, but the company’s leadership felt it knew best,” read an anonymous response.
However, this survey was conducted in September 2023 — right around the time Epic Games announced it was laying off over 800 employees and before layoffs at Unity, Embracer Group studios, and Bungie.
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If Epic brings ai into Unreal then it would be great for indie games and terrible for AAA
If ai is controlled by the AA+ studios then it will be awful
