I literally tried making an indie on a shoestring budget. Had a pretty good demo too. We needed 10 people 2 years would cost us about $1million (if we all took on $60k salaries). We had SOME interest from publishers, until absolutely everything went to complete shit about 2 years ago. Most of the unconventional routes for…
it's neither - from your post it sounds like you did everything right and it got shat on by circumstance. I was making the suggestion that once the hype around crypto/NFT/AI dies down fully investors will return to the more traditional 2 year cycle because the opportunities to make a quick buck will have evaporated. if…
With these mass layoffs going on it just pushes the non-experienced even further down the foodchain. Studios looking to replace the low end of the pipeline with AI makes it worse. Then to top it off a huge portion, maybe even most, of the available 3D artist positions are only for seniors and leads. So basically if your a…
It's a multi-faceted issue that has a lot to do with funding 2 wars, China, subsidies, and really dumb investments (metaverse/NFT/Crypto), and SVB closing. I've been told the BIG reason for the Bungie layoffs were the fact that Sony had to take out a loan to buy Bungie out. Unfortunately interest rates have skyrocketed to…