The future of the gamedev scene (according to the pros)

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While I was at Develop:Brighton, I had a chance to speak with a wide variety of industry professionals, and gauge how they view the future, here's how that's going...
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00:00 Inner circle
00:59 Hot genres
05:35 Mobile market
07:24 AI
09:27 Talking to you
10:55 Closing
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@FacundoComix 19 дней назад

Looks like Marnix fought a rival gamedev gang

@GohanScholar 19 дней назад

The bench presses have proven very effective

@PolySwitchOfficial 19 дней назад

I haven't had much luck selling my games online. I opened up a small arcade at my local mall and built my own cabs for the games I've made. I have been fortunate

@xkoan-yy7lg 17 дней назад

wait what? thats awesome. what country?

@PolySwitchOfficial 17 дней назад

@@xkoan-yy7lg United States

@marktaro 15 дней назад

That's awesome. You just figured out how to bypass steam

@PolySwitchOfficial 15 дней назад

@@marktaro it's not much but it's honest work ($10-30/week)

@FuZZbaLLbee 15 дней назад

Nice, the only arcade where you can complain about a game and the owner can fix it 😀

@gameboardgames 20 дней назад

Being a solo dev is tough! But ya, there is a few benefits. One is a tiny budget, and no loans or advances or staff to have to cover my costs. If my game doesn't make much money, that's just money I could have made working for someone else lost. Second benefit: with the AI tooling these days, it's never been a better time to be a solo dev. I could totally see why teams of 1 - 4 people or so are the way to go these days and in this crap economic times.

@TESkyrimizer 20 дней назад

all true except the barrier to entry has never been lower so your execution has to not only be great but exceptional. good for gamers, bad for devs. also marketing is even more of a bitch with the increases # of releases

@idiberug 16 дней назад

They already are. The only reason to expand beyond 2 or so people is the need for 3D assets, everything else can be generated and all programming (for indies) can be done using blueprints.

@antonlevkovsky1667 6 дней назад

@@idiberug but did you try generating? You can't iterate, the time waste to generate what you need is huge. I can't imagine how can someone build art for entire game using only AI. You can only do auxiliary art, e.g. for marketing.

@dobrx6199 20 дней назад

Really useful video, I'm liking these develop Brighton videos a lot!

@ozten 8 дней назад

Thank you for sharing the industry perspective! Massively helpful.

@zoombapup 20 дней назад

Been looking at the freelance market for Unreal Engine recently. Because I have plans for doing that more the next few years. Most of the freelancer jobs boards are full of people underbidding each other to the point where the only ones left are living in india. So that idea of freelancing for a bit of extra cash is kind of a bust right now. I'd rather work on tech or my own indie games too. Weird how metrics change over time. It WILL recover though.

@mandisaw 19 дней назад

Re: mobile - I'm actually giving a talk this weekend for PC indies looking to explore mobile, might go up on YT later this year. Mobile is such a large market that there's actually a lot of room for indies to do "real games", and make good money. You don't need multimillion-dollar budgets if you aren't paying 100s of salaries. But it's like PC vs console - you have to understand how that market works, what the players expect in terms of input, session length, etc, and whether your idea/game is actually "mobile-friendly". Ubisoft dropped AC: Mirage for USD$50, only on the newest, fanciest iPhones, and it sold about 80-100k units. They didn't redo the UI for phones, they didn't do region-pricing, and they didn't even optimize it - ran so hot, one comment said "molten slab of glass" 😮 Make a good mobile port, market it appropriately, and keep your costs reasonable. Don't pull a Ubisoft 😂

@alignedgames 19 дней назад

Great video, thanks!

@anonimowelwiatko9811 19 дней назад

Seems like someone really brought some heavy feedback on Forge Industry.

@TransformHypnosis 20 дней назад

THis is such a comfy channel

@DarinM1967 20 дней назад

Great video! Individual people are smart, mobs/companies are dumb. The gaming industry is so screwed up that they are throwing s#it against the wall to try to see what sticks, because they are so out of touch with their fan base. They are also trying to over saturate the market to force single and small teams out of business. Publishers are never your friend and they only care about fast cash so they will do whatever it takes to make a buck, no matter who gets hurt. The industry is crashing, especially AAA and AA publishers so their starting to get desperate, but instead of listening to their customers they'll just keep double downing on b.s. over marketing crap, that's why their crashing. Indies and modders are where it is and they are the only ones who will survive Game Crash 2.0, as long as they don't loose the faith and keep focusing on good innovated gameplay, and unique games!

@TESkyrimizer 20 дней назад

oh my god i can feel the AC in that room and I really wanna just be there rn lol

@JokeryEU 14 дней назад

a game where you have the basic starting city/village created by devs, story quests in that area created by humans, and once you go outside that area, the ai will generate the story for you based on your interactions, including the graphs/ animations/ events. Only part of dev will be fine tunned to AI, also downside would be everyone that plays the game will need to have AI cores in their computer, either in cpu or gpu or both. Since normal versions wont cut it and you would get huge fps spikes. Luckily now new cpus and gpus contain ai cores.

@KindSparkdev 19 дней назад

Mobile is wild. I paid $200 to google so that it could market my game and I ended up with like over a thousand players. But according to them all my players were in India and SEA so the money I made off of my own ads was literally nothing. edit. to clarify I made all the marketing materials myself, google adsense just plays it on other platforms that use google ads. Banner ads are useless unless you load like 20 of them.

@kinggingerbread 18 дней назад

Cant expect to earn big with only thousand players

@kinggingerbread 18 дней назад

India is among top countries where people prefer watching ads than buying stuffs

@shaunfarley7087 20 дней назад

As an artist with almost no programming experience I would really struggle to make the game I am currently making without the aid of ai, in my case chatgpt. Don't get me wrong I cant ask it to make my game for me, it doesnt understand the exact mechanics I need (physics based skateboarding game). But I know what I need to do, just not how to write the code, so with a lot of back and fourth with ChatGPT I am able to do the things I want

@mandisaw 20 дней назад

Honestly, you'd be better off just doing game-dev meetups (or virtual!) and find a partner. Plenty of "I can code, but can't do art" folks who would be happy to share your vision for the project, so long as they get creative input too. ChatGPT & such can't tell you what you don't ask - and if you have little knowledge in that area, you don't know what you don't know 😢

@yvesgingras1475 19 дней назад

Chatgpd code can do the job, but if your not carefull, youll end up withl ot of technicall debt. It could bit you later in production.

@user-df5ym9dv5g 9 дней назад

Damn man, I think I need to find another dream.

@couchbrogames7499 19 дней назад

good info

@speedwaylabsdev 20 дней назад

I think mobile has a ton of untapped potential. I use Unreal Engine and create physics-based experiences and these newer phones can handle it. We as developers can flood the mobile market with higher quality experiences... monetize with IAP or a reasonable amount of ads.

@Олег_Евсеев 19 дней назад

True

@SimonSlav-GameMakingJourney 20 дней назад

If what you're saying is true then EPIC's "Unreal For Fornite Editor" has been a 200 IQ move, because if most players don't care about production value they will play "flash-type" games in Fornite on all platforms.

@hiperfx892 20 дней назад

I asked at least 30 Fortnite Twitch Streamer, none of them never heared of UEFN 😂😂. UEFN and Unreal Fab is another Epic fail like Core Games 😅

@MatrixCreator-01 19 дней назад

@@hiperfx892 I dont think so its fail but more of an early stage strategy. Everything is shifting to UGC slowly. There are people making some really good maps in fortnite and earning a lot. When time comes and if industry do shift to online multiplayer games with low production value game then the next big thing is UEFN. As it is in beta already and working quite really good

@MatrixCreator-01 19 дней назад

And ask those 30 streamers about the map "The Pit by greezy" if they are fortnite streamer they would have played it and that map is made in uefn by a solo dev. Who earned millions from it. Streamers having nothing to do with UEFN, its game developers who should know about UEFN.

@brunotorrao 20 дней назад

I think publishing its still working, but only for the real good projects

@MaximumAxiom 20 дней назад

Mobile industry isn't doing great either because of the high interest rates & Apple's privacy updates that make it much harder to target users

@anon3118 20 дней назад

You dont really understand what you're saying. Like a child repeating what their mom said

@mandisaw 20 дней назад

@@anon3118 Eh, s/he's absolutely right about the state of mobile. Especially among smaller companies that relied exclusively on ads & hypercasual. That's why you're seeing more analytics companies offering user-tracking internal to their client sites. And more devs/pubs exploring midcore games and hybrid IAP+IAA (ads) monetization.

@vast634 20 дней назад

I hope Wiliam can survive on 1400 €

@user-df5ym9dv5g 9 дней назад

They need to move to thailand or something.

@DamageSoftware 20 дней назад

Thank you for sharing your experience on this conference. Quite unfortunately that we need to rely on making low-quality clickbaity or as you named it streamerbaity games if we want to make money. Lets hope that this situation is temporary and it will improve in the future.

@dreamingacacia 20 дней назад

I'll just focus on my dream and make do without AI. I feels like it's not that hard to work on stuffs I need by myself. Maybe I failed enough for long enough, so I have all those experiences. If anything in my 10 years experiences, never ever follow the trend. Use something if you need them.

@yvesgingras1475 19 дней назад

Ai is the new unity asset flip.

@holacabeza 20 дней назад

Dating Sims. Mostly about Japanese Fountain Girls. You're welcome.

@tymondabrowski12 20 дней назад

Funny, I just today watched a video about underperforming great games (with very high ratings) and the biggest category was anime stuff...

@pacifico4999 18 дней назад

@@tymondabrowski12What's the title of the video?

@il35215 20 дней назад

Yeah, last year I made 250k on games, this year (6 months actually) only 40k. So yeah, gamedev this days not a best choice.

@TESkyrimizer 20 дней назад

wdym I thought successful devs would know more about how to replicate success than new devs

@mandisaw 20 дней назад

We just came out of the largest 2-3yr spike games has seen since the NES - it was bound to come back to reality, unfortunately. Combine that with less disposable income for most folks, and ppl going for sales, favorite/predictable games, etc, and it's gonna be a rough couple yrs.