Last year, a typical phrase “Sovio” was around 25 “around the video game industry. Time were tough, the splash .The flames – and the people felt Bad. But the New Year can just get better, okay? Well, 2025 has so far proved that 2024 was intended Better a bit more than Saying the least – but the 2025 game developers are hanging at the conference, it feels as if the bright time can be on the horizon.
This is probably the GDC’s Grand Theme, a conference where I spent more time meeting people and Hanging More than I watched the new video games or chased stories. It seems that a particular analysis has caught her, very few people have denied that matters are very messed up Now – But many people are eventually feeling hopeful for the future, which was not true for the nervousness of 2024.
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On the ground at the Maskon Convention Center’s Expo Halls, the GDC felt a bit smaller. For those who started, key partners and important places such as unity and epic had stopped the booth, which always had an impact on the entire show shrinking throughout the scope. In a sense, he later reminded me of E3S when companies like Sony and EA removed their business from the site, leaving everything in the normal show as something was missing. So, yes, the GDC show floor looked more modest – but more notable, undoubtedly, feet traffic was lacking.
Let’s not make the words: In terms of the headquarters, the industry is definitely shrinking. Forcibly, with the rise of money, the company’s mismanagement, and the rise of pandemic diseases. Walking around the GDC and complexes around the hotel lobby and restaurant on any day of the show.
There are other factors. The GDC pass is notoriously expensive, and as people tighten their belts, they probably spend a lot of. Official GDC attendance numbers ponder the number of seeds released last year, so it is much flat more than a decrease. But a timely tradition of the GDC has always been attending the folklore, and holds meetings around the Convention Center while the other is in the city. Seeing the games I have taken many excellent meetings I have taken in coffee shops or hotel rooms, the games are often quietly booted on the steam deck that is then secretly handed over to you.
These beds – people who are most needed this year’s GDC networking, look less this year. In this, we have to look at the geographical political situation, as many countries and backgrounds belong to Review their consent to travel … Well, you know, in the face, Everything.
But at the same time, at the edge of the convention, it feels as if the wind of change is slowly shouting quietly. In events like E3, the show floor seemed a remarkable absence and eventually a symbol of an existential shift – but in the GDC it all felt like a natural breed and flow. However, most of the Wheeler dealing at the GDC is anxious in private sweets, dinner, or crowded hotel lobby bars. It has not changed, which makes the show floor scale very little.
Talking to people who make more important meetings in the event, it is clear that little size is not necessary to have anything negative. A couple of high-flying executive types, who talk about by coincidence and record, look happy with their progress in this event-perhaps showing that a reduction in size and attendance can also lead to noise reduction, which can lead to space for meetings. And individual developers also appeared to be suffering – even those who are working for publishers who have recently left people, are now more excited.
“I’m more hopeful, yes,” a developer met me in the catchup after hours. “In fact, the last game, it seems that it was just a complete miracle we sent. But now, at least, it seems that I am going in the right direction. My new project is starting rightly. This is a world of difference.”
Although Western countries are cautious of the recent suffering, one more thing to say: East developers are usually a more positive point of view. A Japanese developer has revealed that he finds a little difficult to identify with some terrifying undertones in a conversation and comfortable in a comfortable clutter by his Western colleagues because “things are currently very good in Japan”. It probably offers a curious truth: Japan is back, and China is growing – which means that the West will have to eat this energy. Thankfully, the more positive vibration suggests that it can happen.
I guess what I’m saying, is it that the happiness of video games felt something else Living In this year’s GDC. How many times did I collide with the old acquaintance with a new idea or project – those who were defused 18 or 24 months ago – important. Of course. This is still a tough nasal business, and so on the ground, if you are on a home job, some executives have made sure that they can bear their next yacht. But the art and expression of gaming was for more exhibitions in the faces of happiness, the exhibition of a pleasant alternative control scheme, and an award ceremony that was a wonderful diverse and representative of industry makers. Importantly, lost and absent people were not forgotten – with awards, AI’s risks, discourse. The brutality of the brutality, and the experienced abilities of the industry’s dangerous habit were identified. Things need to be called – and folk were doing it.
Cooperation also proved an interesting theme. Standing at the same stage from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, they are exposing interesting graphical progress. All Back, most of the major publishers of gaming are pulling ESA for a wonderful pulling together under the industry body Retaicing moveFor the maximum development of the farm, there is a great sense of brands working together.
Among the joy, there are clearly serious things. I face a lot of discussions about prices – which companies are most exposed, who is ready, and who is not. I am sitting Amazing discussions about AI This, with the careful application of alcohol, Rise quickly. AI is present everywhere, with curious and interesting implementation (focus on the use of AI to enhance NVIDIA performance, for example) nonsense stolen gifts that produce suspicious quality results. But I am glad to see that it seems that the web -3’s nasty is mostly excited, especially the bubble, apparently does not explode at all, but with a whisper, it is much more stirred than existence.
And while employment safety is still a problem, where last year’s GDC was a home The pre -arranged primary hole in the falseThis year, instead of a organized and sharp protest march for the unity, which has announced the start of a potentially powerful. New union. This justification probably makes the best calculation of this: last year was Fit fit for anger screams, while this year anger has not been changed, but has been channeled. In the organization, in the requirements, calling bad behavior, and returning to the saddle to build interesting new sports in the developers.
Mostly I still have to say, more than a little panic – but there is a visible sound that is clearly less poisonous than last year. People are excited to make a game again. In 2024, the mantra was only for survival. In 2025, it seems that the intention is to force the powers that are to improve.
