{"id":16017,"date":"2026-02-21T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16017"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:25:33","slug":"more-than-25-of-game-devs-were-laid-off-and-half-dont-have-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16017","title":{"rendered":"More than 25% of game devs were laid off and half don’t have a new job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GDC sent out their annual State of the Game Industry survey<\/a> and it confirms the dire state of game development. More than 25% of game developers were laid off the last 2 years<\/a> and half of them have not found another job.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Game developer Farhan Noor, who has been tracking industry job cuts<\/a> since 2022, estimates that around 8,500 workers were laid off in 2022, 10,500 workers in 2023, 14,600 workers in 2024 and 5,300 workers in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GDC sent out their annual State of the Game Industry survey and it confirms the dire state of game development. More than 25% of game developers were laid off the last 2 years and half of them have not found another job. Game developer Farhan Noor, who has been tracking industry job cuts since 2022, estimates that around 8,500 workers were laid off in 2022, 10,500 workers in 2023, 14,600 workers in 2024 and 5,300 workers in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4al","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16019,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions\/16019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}