Devcom speaker survey highlights mixed attitudes towards AI

The Devcom speaker survey has revealed that 33% of respondents wish to use AI as little as potential – however 32% see a use for AI in code and manufacturing.

Simply 11% wish to see AI utilized in artwork and animation, whereas fewer than 10% wish to see it utilized in advertising and marketing and communication, and the figures fall to round 3% for narrative design.

When requested concerning the largest problem presently dealing with the video games trade, nearly all of respondents (56) cited financial and political uncertainty. Virtually as regarding was market saturation (53 votes), adopted by rising improvement prices (44 votes).

Curiously, 46% of respondents stated that they thought a number of main platform holders would shift their focus towards cloud and digital providers within the subsequent few years. And nearly all of audio system (59%) stated they like to purchase their video games digitally, whereas 22% stated they might purchase bodily variations just for collector’s editions.

Devcom returns to Cologne, Germany, on August 17–19 with greater than 350 audio system and greater than 200 periods.

One of many highlights for this yr is a brand new, devoted roundtable stage the place a number of roundtables will likely be hosted on the similar time, says Devcom senior PR and partnership supervisor Robin Hartmann. “We received the suggestions that these roundtables had been very properly acquired, they usually needed extra.”

He provides that audio system have been eager to supply roundtables somewhat than common panels or hearth chats, as a result of roundtables supply extra interactivity and extra probability for individuals to ask questions.

“We even have a extremely large expo stage,” he says. “You positively get the Gamescom feeling already once you’re coming into our venue.” Everybody who has entry to the expo ground can watch the periods on the primary stage, which is able to host the keynotes and can function extra content material this yr.

Hartmann says the session he is personally trying ahead to most is a chat from Minh Le, creator of Counter-Strike. “We’ve got him on website speaking about improvement and challenges over the previous 25 years of the video games trade.”

He is additionally trying ahead to a keynote from the creators of STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl – sport director Ievgen Grygorovych and artistic director Mariia Grygorovych. “That is going to be intense, I feel, as a result of they needed to face so many challenges, particularly with the warfare in Ukraine.”

Different highlights embrace talks from Michel Nohra, lead sport designer on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Zeke Virant, lead sport designer on Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, whereas producers and venture managers from Arrowhead Recreation Studios, Gearbox Montreal, and Avalanche Studios will likely be sharing their warfare tales from the frontlines of sport improvement.

David Fox, one of many unique workers of Lucasfilm Video games, will even be there to replicate on the event of Rescue on Fractalus! from 1985, which used fractals to generate a really early instance of real-time 3D.

Newly introduced talks and occasions at Devcom embrace ‘Viva La Recreation Dev: How a YouTube Empire Turned Indie Recreation Gold’, that includes the creators behind Viva La Filth League, in addition to ‘Mario Kart World: Beat the Execs’, wherein viewers members will likely be invited to problem specialists at Nintendo’s racer within the hope of profitable tickets to subsequent yr’s Devcom.

Extra particulars could be discovered on the Devcom website.