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What gaming job ads data tells us about when you’re getting a new game
- Games Job Live has created a dataset that tracks job vacancies in the game development industry with insights into the labour market trends, training programs and career requirements for game developers. The dataset reveals evolving trends highly relevant to the games industry and plays a role in helping game studios and education providers align their offerings with industry needs. It also serves as a bellwether for training requirements and career choices for developers, in addition to providing additional insights to studio movements around a new game release.
- Games Job Live currently covers only four countries, including the UK, Australia, France and Belgium, with a handful of US listings from UK-based game developers with exposure to that market. Macdonald emphasises the importance of the dataset's application for labour trends in the games development industry over other areas.
- Australia has buffered the bulk of redundancies — now reportedly totalling over 14,000 globally — due to the majority of its gaming industry being indie-focused. The UK, on the other hand, is more exposed as most of its game development is focused on AAA games.
- Most developers are looking for experienced talent to work in game development, suggesting both a shortage and a requirement for larger developers to train existing talent internally into roles instead of trying to hire experienced developers.
- Coders are always in demand, but compared to the UK, the Australian games industry has a healthy appetite for art specialists. This checks out as art style can make or break indie games.
- Job vacancy data can hint at a change of direction or even a delay for a studio's major game release. Although the industry rarely gives anything away ahead of time, changes in a developer's hiring habits on a macro level can provide insight.
- Alan Wake 2's complete set of downloadable add-ons, including Night Springs and The Lake House, have rich storytelling, are excellently voice-acted, and come with banger music tracks that play when credits roll.
- Night Springs is essentially a video game version of The Twilight Zone exploring funk hypotheses. The Lake House loops in the main story and follows the path of Federal Bureau of Control agent Kiran Estevez, ahead of the encounter with her in the main game.
- Estevez is a trained agent of the Federal Bureau of Control, handling the supernatural being her day job. Both of Alan Wake 2's add-ons are incredibly rich in storytelling and offer highly interesting subversions of what is anticipated from horror protagonists.
- Both add-ons, like the main game, are available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, GeForce Now, and Microsoft Windows, and are worth trying if you like Alan Wake 2 and want more, the recent Silent Hill 2 remake, or Resident Evil series.
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