I cursed loudly here... Damn, that's terrible news, mate. Wish I could do something to help. If anything, I'm doing a market analysis and things are dire to GameDev since 2021 onwards. Lots of publishers cancelling contracts, lots of layoffs. It's a shitty situation... =/ - ThreadSky

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kezarus.bsky.social • 26 days ago

I cursed loudly here... Damn, that's terrible news, mate. Wish I could do something to help.

If anything, I'm doing a market analysis and things are dire to GameDev since 2021 onwards. Lots of publishers cancelling contracts, lots of layoffs. It's a shitty situation... =/

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relicabyss.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yeah, hard times for game dev. That and AI threatening to take over us is pretty depressing. But I guess it's the same everywhere else.

We really do appreciate that publisher helping us out in the first place though. At least thanks to them we we're able to finish our demo.

kezarus.bsky.social•26 days ago

Stay strong and stand tall, mate. You already made an incredible thing. If possible, finish it juts to push an amazing game out in the wild.

spiffybaldguy.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yeah I think the pandemic created a gaming gold rush as companies tried to cash in on the increase in sales (and probably also wanting fortnite level hits). It was bound to happen, still sucks, and I would rather indie and small dev shops be spared.

kezarus.bsky.social•26 days ago

What I saw is that the exponential growth offered by the Game Industry since 2011 is no more. It flatlined on 2021 onwards. Now we have a lot of slop and fighting for attention against TikTok and YouTube. we capped the amount of humans available to play a game too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HM9nmqNioQ

spiffybaldguy.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yeah the pandemic really maximized player headcounts and I think I saw a post where it said that something like 90% of played time onsteam games a older vs new as well. I watch some youtube/twitch as well so it definitely can take some time away from games (tho usually watching gameplay lol)

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