Video game The industry has been in a turbulent place for the past year, with the studio closure and job security at the forefront of developer concerns. Increasing dismissal with apparently endless ends a dark image for Devs, while companies are pumping money in artificial intelligence initiatives.
According to a new report by the game developers’ conference, 52 % of the Devs studied said they work in companies that use AI production in their games. Of the 3,000, almost half said that they were concerned about the impact of the technology on the industry and have reported an increasing number that generally feel negative about artificial intelligence. Released Tuesday, the “Game Industry Status” report is one of the polls held every year by GDC organizers before their annual conference. The event will be held this year in San Francisco.
The GDC 2025 reports on the heels of two years of aggressive industry in the industry. Even as games like RobotWith HelloDivers 2Vat Baltro Success found studios such as Microsoft and Sony have reduced employees and canceled games. Among the combination of cultural and economic factors affecting the industry, developers still deal with the company’s enthusiasm for technology, some of which are morally worrying.
“I have a doctorate in artificial intelligence, I worked to develop some of the algorithms used by AI,” he wrote. “I deeply regret how naively offered my help.”
About 30 percent of developers who responded to the poll said they were 18 percent compared to last year. Only 13 % believed that artificial intelligence had a positive effect on games, out of 21 % in 2024. “No matter how you stated it, AI is not a great replacement for real people and its quality is damaged.” Wrote in their reply.
For developers, artificial intelligence Potentially The respondents said, to help several things, including programming, conceptual art and 3D model production, but when asked what they saw for AI in the industry, “The word most used in their responses It was “none of the absence”, the GDC organizers wrote.
Theoretically, manufacturing artificial intelligence can help some developers clarify their workload. This does not happen instead, according to reports, developers are longer hours than years. Thirteen percent of respondents reported that they have acquired 51 -hour weeks, out of 8 % of the respondents last year. While these additional hours can be done to Devs to attribute additional work to compensate for the lost colleagues during widespread firing in the 2024 industry, many concerns that AI was also the agent. “We need to use productive artificial intelligence to help people be faster and not lose them,” wrote one worker.
The firing, the story of the industry for the past few years, still has a big problem. Mantra “Live” for those who have lost their jobs for those who have lost their jobs. According to the poll, the 10 developers have been fired over the past year. Also, the “N/A” responses also increased: “This question was not applied because they were previously fired or otherwise unemployed. In other words, it was not a concern now, because, in some way Had fallen. “
