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Do Game Devs Make Less Money?

5/28/2020

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Short Answer: Yes, but...
📌 Game Development jobs on average, pay less than other software development jobs. The game industry is a hit-driven industry with passionate people competing for roles. Like other industries of creativity, value is rewarded, and you'll have to make sure you can add value if you wish to increase your $$.
📌 Exceptions do exist. There are many positions that require a high degree of skill and many individuals who can command a high salary. Expertise, experience, and luck play a role, but you'll have to be very driven to acquire one of these positions.
📌 Only about 10 percent of new games will generate any real money. The numbers are skewed down by a large population of small developers pumping out games as a hobby or with no real marketing plan. Point is, the money is not equally distributed among games released.
📌 Young Blood: every year, a large pool of fresh graduates are ready to spend countless hours working in the game industry. Supply and demand rules apply, and many larger companies roll them up, pay them cheap, work them until burn out, then repeat.
📌 Is the Game Industry for you? If your goal is strictly to maximize money, then probably not. But if you have a desire to create and build games, then you should try it. Game Development isn't a job to me, it's part of my identity, who I am, what I do, a way of life.
📌 You have to understand that when you jump into the game industry, you'll meet many others like me: people constantly competing, learning, developing, and thriving. It's a frantic hurricane, but if you have persistence, drive, and patience, you can rise above your peers.
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Carlos V link
5/28/2022 08:32:20 pm

Great readd thank you

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