Gamedev has an "I'm unemployed" vibe.

@CodeRed_dev This fits so many situations: small singers, small actors, illustrators, musicians And since GameDev is the fusion of all these fields, we’re literally the most unemployed people on the planet

@CodeRed_dev Put the "starving" back in "starving artist"

@CodeRed_dev It’s crazy I went from graphic design to web development to game development. And while I love making games and pixel animations, I might have to go back to web development or something else 😅🤦‍♂️ just pay for my game development…

@CodeRed_dev there will always be need of marketing

@CodeRed_dev We are now in the "starving artist" stage of gamedev

@CodeRed_dev If your website sucks no one really cares, but if a game sucks you get death threats

Well, game dev is as hard if not harder to get into than FAANG at entry level, and it pays a tiny fraction of what FAANG pays with worse benefits and hours, let alone paid time off and sick days. People gonna do the math and decide that if they’re gonna grind, they’re gonna grind for the $150-200k+ job with stocks and perks on top of job stability, instead of the game studios that routinely pay devs miserly wages and fire half their workforce after a project ends. Game studios also rarely if ever provide profit sharing or any similar incentives.

@CodeRed_dev It's sad because game development is way harder and produces a way better product. Also its an actual art compared to Web

@CodeRed_dev The reason is because people are unwilling to spend more than $5 for 5 hours of entertainment, but are happy to ape in their whole salaries buying stuff they don't need using said websites.

@CodeRed_dev Game dev goes one of two ways: join triple A company and be shit on forever, with risk of random staff purges. Or make your own for years and hope it succeeds or you’ll go bankrupt

@CodeRed_dev That's how art is. "I'm a writer." - unemployed. "I'm a game dev." - unemployed. "I draw." - unemployed. Financial success isn't an artists standard for success. So long as they can sustain themselves while they work on their art, they don't care. Their minds are their mansions

@CodeRed_dev If you dont have any income coming in from other work or a game out selling already, then you ARE unemployed haha. I count myself in that boat right now. Unemployed with a dream! Haha

@CodeRed_dev Indeed. There are only so many AAA game companies and even in those job stability is basically non-existent bcz of many reasons. In contrast, even small web dev agencies can be financially profiting for 8-10 years so on average job stability and return rate is better.

@CodeRed_dev It's because web dev is easy. Literally the burger flipping of development.

@CodeRed_dev It's also really fuckin hard to do. Huge time commitment as well, higher chance of failure. lool. You can make a great website in 3 months. You cannot make a great game in 3 months.

@CodeRed_dev web development will have such vibe in a few months after people realize LLMs can do it better than mediocre coders...

@CodeRed_dev It’s not the economy, it’s the freelance life. Game devs don’t have 9 to 5 jobs, they have project to project lives.

@CodeRed_dev Not true, there are more and more people who want to make games, but there are less and less real open positions for those people. The game industry is slowly plateauing into saturation.

@CodeRed_dev All I see is...

@CodeRed_dev Only if you want to make fun games. If you want to make loot box simulators there's plenty of opportunity

@CodeRed_dev Truth. I'm currently unemployed and am also a solo game dev. So this 100% applies to me.

@CodeRed_dev Are there any game development jobs as I have been looking in the UK and there appear to be hardly any?

@CodeRed_dev i hate that its kind of a reality lol

@CodeRed_dev Either unemployed "working on a project" Or corporate crunch time destroying your mental health.

@CodeRed_dev Unfortunately

With all the AI threats looming over game development, it’s a bit of a risky field to enter right now. I know what I’m talking about. I studied digital media and design in college and earned my bachelor’s degree. Just months after I graduated, all these logo makers, website builders, and replacements for what I studied for started popping up.

@CodeRed_dev Not just a vibe, game dev is quite literally unemployment for a lot people

@CodeRed_dev But it’s the coolest and highest form of any tech development….

@CodeRed_dev Game Dev is much harder

@CodeRed_dev Given the 2025 stats, that seems to be the case.

@CodeRed_dev After fiddling with web dev for 3-4 years. I was thinking about switching to game dev. I think I have my answer

@CodeRed_dev Based on my understanding, all development right now has an "I'm unemployed" vibe.

@CodeRed_dev Well live from backend development, the videogame stuff is just a hobby

@CodeRed_dev As a person who was a "game developer" before, you're absolutely correct

@CodeRed_dev There are around 14.000 games produced this year. Only on Steam, mind you, the number would be much bigger if we count with mobile games, for example. If anything, there are more games than the video game market can absorb, so lots end up not making money.

@CodeRed_dev I think it’s a perception thing, I can see 5 years from now we’ll have a movie like the social network but for Notch or something