Not that I think anyone needs to be fair to Tim Sweeney but I believe Epic works with a shitload of contractors/codevs who aren't counted as part of that 4000 employee figure

Still not over the news and the wave of grief at hearing - and seeing - that a ton of codevs at Obsidian were let go today. For no reason, and with no warning.

Thank you for being amazing colleagues, and sincerely wishing you a bright future ahead.

#homeless #indiedev #codevs #cyberpunk

I think I want to submit a talk for GDC next year on effective relationships with codevs.
Will have to chat to my studio about it, and maybe find some other codevs to cross-reference my experiences with.

She's fucking hilarious! 🤣 @pixelv666.bsky.social

I have created a beautiful MONSTER! 😏

#ai #osshell #indiedev #codevs #aichat #chatgpt

2.7 is downright implausible to support a team of 30 people + god knows how many codevs for 3-4 years

dafuq is going on in the deep end of github?
i dont really use git or github outside of simple pushing, pulling, and branching with my codevs (which functions fine), so i have yet to personally see how the platform has encrapperated, but i'd like to know.

It's an efficient use of resources and could stop layoffs (support studios and codevs can scale up and down and move to new projects easier) but let's not pretend that it will

As someone who did contract work for AAA companies, until they fix their baggage with project scale and scope and their relationship with "codevs", we could just end up in a situation where we can't make anything anymore.

Yeah, it dismisses codevs, it dismisses contractors and freelance workers, it encourages groups to stay small and don't incorporate to avoid the overhead of Actually Employing People and keeps everyone hungry for whatever scraps the investors are okay with throwing us. It's anti-worker, anti-union.

Re: the solo dev/small dev stuff

First blush, saying "this one dude and his five bros made this game in a cave with a box of scraps" is glazing devs in small teams (which is good! Keighley doesn't do this enough!) but it's ignoring all the other folks (codevs, contractors, etc) who, y'know...

Like basically going "lets have the octopath codevs make ML into lite version of a modern jrpg while still keeping a lot of its trademark charm and style" is a good idea on paper and for what its worth it works well, again it just kinda got overshadowed bty a lot of things.

Codev studios necessarily live downstream from the rest of the industry, so when everyone else is struggling, codevs do as well.

You’ve all watched the slow-motion catastrophe our industry is facing, so you can make informed guesses about what it’s all meant for codevs, at least domestically.

The codevs that make them don't charge a lot of money, at those prices you're talking hundreds of units sold before break even

Which makes me wonder where the grift is. Is it in the shmucks who are just exploiting game devs like this?

OR -- is there a hidden strata of people investing in codev houses who, knowing how necessary codevs are in this guerilla "solo dev" hellscape, can set their own prices?

best part of this game is that it is made by the codevs of last year's GOTY concord

yuppppp its actually because Falcom worked as codevs on it and specifically coded in crowrean content much like they do in their games without telling anyone 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Yes it is a real game m afraid
Yes its codeveloped by the needy streamer overload/boyhoods end and the Octopath traveler codevs/Akibas Trip/ML Brothership people.

Yes I'm tempted to get it just because of I'm too deep into both of these devs games.