Game devs get paid shit wages, so honestly it could be a good thing that those jobs are “gone”. Just feed the marketing and management people their slop and take the paycheck home.
If you really want to be a game dev and not sell your soul for no pay then being an indie dev is really the only way to go. But that also requires having a good idea, beating your soul to death for a few years, then maybe you can cash out.
I started college before covid, becoming a game programmer.
I’m happy I got the degree and experience, I’m sad because now those jobs are gone, changed, or became near impossible to get into.
Have LLMs really changed game dev that much? Aside from giving you a tool to help development, that is.
Game devs get paid shit wages, so honestly it could be a good thing that those jobs are “gone”. Just feed the marketing and management people their slop and take the paycheck home.
If you really want to be a game dev and not sell your soul for no pay then being an indie dev is really the only way to go. But that also requires having a good idea, beating your soul to death for a few years, then maybe you can cash out.
Yeah, it’s a real gamble. Most indie games fail.