Especially with the recent slew of layoffs in the gaming industry. One anecdotal report from a local small time game dev said they'd get hundreds, if not thousands of responses to an open position, both domestic and international from recently fired game developers.
It's a really weird market, it's both one of the biggest industries in the world (bigger than music and movies combined), yet also high unemployment and poor working conditions / work/life balance, with AI throwing another spanner in the works. Meanwhile a lot of people that want to work in it aren't just in it for the money, they have genuine passion for the craft / industry - which is actually rare in most IT jobs, most enterprise jobs aren't exactly exciting material.
Especially with the recent slew of layoffs in the gaming industry. One anecdotal report from a local small time game dev said they'd get hundreds, if not thousands of responses to an open position, both domestic and international from recently fired game developers.
It's a really weird market, it's both one of the biggest industries in the world (bigger than music and movies combined), yet also high unemployment and poor working conditions / work/life balance, with AI throwing another spanner in the works. Meanwhile a lot of people that want to work in it aren't just in it for the money, they have genuine passion for the craft / industry - which is actually rare in most IT jobs, most enterprise jobs aren't exactly exciting material.