Hello everyone, today's post is something a lot more personal than my usual posts. With all the recent layoffs in the past year in the gaming indus...
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Hey,
Just hang on dude. Video game industry, like many industries, are cyclic with cyle time of 5/10 years. It will start again in a few year. Meaning you will probably face 4 or 5 crisis waves in your carreer.
Furthemore, waves of layoffs are are highly publicized, but even during layoffs there are still open positions (not so many, but there are). There are also other industries that goes well, and that use video game technologies for serious gaming or data visualization.
For example, VBS is a serious FPS dedicated for militaries and public services. Where I live, there are a few startups that use VR devices for medical threatements. SLB, my company, use Unity for 3d data visualization. They even have a center in California that do user training using VR.
I was graduated in 2009, the famous "year of subprime crisis". The job market was catastrophic and I was very anxious of not finding a job. I ended up doing OpenGL and 3D visualisation all day long for cancer reasearch in a small company 😋. Then, I worked on OpenInventor render engine. Now I'm full time on Unity for geologic data visualization.
Open your mind. If you don't find a job in video game, try to find a job in similar domain, gain experience, and go back to video game in a few year when the market is more favorable.
I would welcome more opinions from the industry, but I think it's been long known that the games industry is not a great place for technical people. I think it's down to the high supply of developers, because games are cool, who wouldn't want to work on them? That means companies can be different to the rest of the tech industry and demand a lot from their hires. Long hours, terrible pay, lack of diversity... but hey, you got to work on a game, right? I'm not sure that equation does add up to a good quality of life or great career.. so maybe it is something you do while you're young and don't realise how much you're being screwed. And maybe companies are playing on that too. It wouldn't surprise me if a practice of [the bigger] companies is to hire when they're trying to get a game completed, then fire everyone straight after.
Thanks for sharing ❤️
its not just the gaming industry, its all of the tech industry right now. i have kind of been trying to pivot away from tech work honestly.