#GLOBAL EVENTS

[askagamedev]

When do you think the industry will go back to "normal" and what are some signs that that is going to happen?. I mean, studios stabilizing financially, AAA games franchises not getting canceled anymore, reducing the amount of layouts happening. I just saw the news of EA firing 300+ people and possibly cancelling Titanfall 3. Is there any hope that this is going to get better, or this is already the new normal?

Things will contract until they reach equilibrium. There have been bad times before (most recently the 2007-2012 Great Financial Crisis era) where everything contracted for a while, and eventually things turned around again. The main issue is that the nothing exists in a vacuum. The greater international economic situation is causing significant uncertainty. The tariff situation is only one factor in this - there's was also significant over-investment in games between 2020-2022, which then led to this correction in the total number of sustainable projects and staff, the tech industry at large having a lot of trouble, the global interest rates rising that made it difficult to borrow money and thus try new things, AI threatening to replace human workers, and a thousand other issues.

You've probably noticed that a lot of these cancellations are "incubation" projects. Incubation projects are the new game ideas that aren't going to ship for several years. They're often still in the extremely early stages of development, still figuring out what the core of the game will be, and nowhere near ready to play or even show. When your house is in order and things are good, you can think about how you want to remodel the kitchen or build out a patio. When your house is on fire, those plans for the kitchen remodel are a lot less important.

Things will continue to get worse until we reach a state where things are sustainable again. I have no idea when that will be and I sincerely sympathize with all of the unfortunate victims of the waves of layoffs. Unfortunately, we as individuals lack the ability to affect the international situation very much. All we can do is keep moving forward. We level up, we work on self-improvement, and we try to do better with the opportunities we currently have. Take care of yourselves, we're all in for a bumpy ride for the next few years.

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[askagamedev]

It is been predicted by many economists we are heading to a recession. From your writings it sounds like you were a game dev during the 2008 recession, any suggestions on how to weather the storm as a game dev?

The best advice I got in tough times was "broaden your search". The second-best advice I got was "use your network if you can". There are jobs to be had that are gaming-adjacent and gaming-related that I found I could do. I, like many, ended up working outside of traditional video game development for a brief period of time. That might be casino games, mobile games, simulation, training work, user experience design, or something else entirely.

I worked with former game devs doing work very similar to game dev at the time. I got this job because one of my D&D players had also been let go from his former employer a few months before me, found work at a new company, and then told me to apply at his company since they were hiring. That turned into an offer, which resulted in my employment there for a time while I looked for work back in proper video games. I ended up working with more than one of the developers I worked with at that company at other studios later on in my career.

You are never tied to any one employer and you can always leave. There's nothing wrong with finding work in the interim to pay the bills, especially if you can grow/maintain your industry network, level up your relevant skills, and then take new opportunities when they present themselves. It might not be your favorite job ever, but paying the bills and leveling the skills are absolutely a fair trade - especially during a recession.

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[marzipanandminutiae]

here's the thing about the fucking tariffs. besides Unfairly Punishing Our FUCKING ALLIES YOU MORON- okay okay. anyway. the other thing

the other thing is that we have no manufacturing here

most of the fabric I buy to make my clothes is made overseas. I would actually love to buy wool from a local, unionized woolen mill! I'd be pleased as punch to do that! it's better for the environment and creates good local jobs that don't have a barrier of entry re: college degrees, which we need more of!

except we don't have any more fucking woolen mills because your billionaire ilk outsourced all of them to avoid union rules, OSHA, and paying minimum wage, when those things became commonplace and/or law. you orange fuckface

"buy American instead!!!" okay FROM FUCKING WHERE. we don't MAKE shit here anymore. and the few remaining local producers have been forced to charge exorbitant prices because they're competing with cheap unethical labor practices from big companies, so most people can't afford to buy local

god it's all so fucking stupid and I have to suffer for other people's idiocy that I actively tried to prevent

[onlydigressing]

that could never happen! Never in a billion ye-

look man. Idk what to tell you. You’re either willfully ignorant or completely unimaginative. Everything has happened before, someway or somehow. It might have been a different font or flavor, but nothing is new and everything repeats. It’s the truth and curse of being alive. :)