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I started college before covid, becoming a game programmer.
I'm happy I got the degree and experience, I'm sad because now those jobs are gone, changed, or became near impossible to get into.
Job numbers in the games industry are now almost the same as pre pandemic levels though. The problem was that these companies hired too many people, because money was cheap and they saw an uptick in sales during the lockdowns. They thought those sales numbers would sustain but it didn’t and interest rates went up. So the layoffs came.
Because they fired so many people at the same time it of course is really hard to find a job in the industry right now. But the industry isn’t collapsing. It will just take a few years until supply and demand finds a sustainable equilibrium.
NFTs and Blockchain are just a fad and AI/LLMs will not destroy jobs in the industry, the shit AI and LLMs poop out is not meeting any of the standards required for production.
Have LLMs really changed game dev that much? Aside from giving you a tool to help development, that is.
Game devs get paid shit wages, so honestly it could be a good thing that those jobs are "gone". Just feed the marketing and management people their slop and take the paycheck home.
If you really want to be a game dev and not sell your soul for no pay then being an indie dev is really the only way to go. But that also requires having a good idea, beating your soul to death for a few years, then maybe you can cash out.
Yeah, it's a real gamble. Most indie games fail.