The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have published the results of their traditional developer survey: this time, 2,300 participants took part. We’ve selected some interesting highlights from the report.
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- Over the past two years, 28% of developers have lost their jobs.
- The highest percentage of layoffs in the last 12 months was among game designers (20%). The lowest was among business operations specialists (8%).
- 36% of respondents stated that their companies use generative AI. The most popular tools are ChatGPT (74%), Google Gemini (37%), Microsoft Copilot (22%), proprietary services (21%), and Midjourney (17%).
- However, developers have become more negative towards generative AI: 52% are convinced that it harms the industry. A year ago, 30% gave this response, and two years ago — 18%.
- 42% of developers are creating games on Unreal Engine, 30% on Unity, and 5% on Godot. Another 19% use engines developed by their own companies.
- The PC remains the most popular platform — 80% of developers expressed a desire to create future games for it.
- Twice as many developers want to make games for the PlayStation 5 (40%) compared to the Xbox Series (20%). Many are also interested in games for the Steam Deck (40%), Nintendo Switch 2 (39%), Android (16%), and iOS (16%).
- 26% of developers are working on free-to-play games.
- 35% of developers fund their games independently. For solo developers, this percentage rises to 86%.
- 59% of respondents work at least 40 hours a week (solo developers were not included in this statistic).