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It's still grim out there, even if you aren't AAA: Industry report claims that 1 in 10 respondents were laid off in 2024—with 'narrative' roles taking the biggest overall hit

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2023 was one hell of a tough year for game developers, with over 16,000 layoffs happening across the industry—but hey, at least things are improving, right?

You are now permitted to imagine me laughing nervously and looking very, very tired. 2024 was no stranger to shutdowns and layoffs like, say, the Microsoft carnage at Activision Blizzard.

And, as this grim bloody summary by our own Wes Fenlon tabulates, around 15,000 were laid off in total which, while a smaller number, still smarts like hell.

But it's not just the AAA market that's been feeling it. A recent «State of the Industry» survey by GDC (that's the Game Development Conference) dug up some similar findings among its respondents which, weirdly enough, are mostly indie developers: Namely, that 1 in 10 of them were laid off.

Some things to lay out about this survey—firstly, like most surveys, it's not flawlessly constructed. As criticised by some experts like Laine Nooney, an associate professor of media, culture, and communication, the survey itself isn't too great of a measuring stick of the industry due to its overrepresentation of indie developers.

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