Wer sind wir? Wir sind die Game Workers, eine Gruppe.vom #GameDev.s und Arbeitenden aus der Deutschen #GamesIndustry.
Was wollen wir? Wir wollen gute Spiele machen - ohne Mismanagement, ohne Crunch, ohne Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz, mit fair bezahlten und stabilen Jobs.
Und wir haben jetzt eine Website, damit man uns finden und beitreten kann.
Join us!
Who are we? We are #gamedev.s and other workers in the German #gamesindustry!
What do we want? A #gamesindustry without mismanagement, crunch, underpayment and harassment.
And now we have a website, so you can join us! ✊️
Yet the #gamesindustry is not dying, it is being killed. By a managerial class that treats #gamedev.s not as creatives or even assets, but merely as a financial liability. Their actions undermine not only the future of their own business, but of games as a viable career path.
It is high time to #unionize and fight back, because otherwise in a few years only AI slop filled to the brim with microtransactions will be the only "games" left.
Only a few days ago Brenda and George Romero called the current state of the #gamesindustry to be even "crashier" than during the collapse of Atari in the 80s.
With yet more layoffs, at Epic, Pixelberry and Eidos among others, it is hard to disagree with them.
Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say
While the scope of layoffs has stunned employees, industry analysts have told IGN that cost-reduction within Epic Games was inevitable amid growing external pressures and costly industry battles.
Been quiet because what more is there to say of a hobby being constantly undercut by economics?
Each joy finds itself bittersweet as the creators so often find themselves thrown to the winds again & again.
The Old World designer has a “giant list of games it’d be fun to make,” but Mohawk Games will move at its own pace.
Friendslop is just the tip of the iceberg, and also a chunk of the iceberg
AI’s impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.
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