Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI (www.gamedeveloper.com)
SAG-AFTRA game actors could strike over AI concerns and wage demands (www.gamedeveloper.com)
IATSE survey: Developers feel their jobs are unsustainable (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Game Developer Podcast 34: Indie marketing advice from Chris Zukowski (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The RPG that forces you to confront capitalism in the hardest way possible (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Article by Game Developer: It talks about the game “I Hate You, Please Suffer” that exposes the cruelty of capitalism a fundamental level.
Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Altagram publishes new crediting policy after Baldur's Gate 3 blunder (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The new policy will apply to "all internal employees and external vendors, subcontractors, and third-party providers."
Tweaks to Steam minimum price thresholds could impact some developers (www.gamedeveloper.com)
How to write a modern game design document (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Behind BattleBit Remastered's seven-year journey to become a smash hit (www.gamedeveloper.com)
UK game industry issues guidance to help devs regulate loot boxes (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Tinybuild CEO admits publisher is using AI tools to monitor employees (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Article by GameDeveloper: The CEO of game publisher Tiny Build has boasted that his company uses ChatGPT in order to surveil their employees in order to find what amounts to grounds to fire them. CEO backpedals and claims his statements were “hypothetical”.
Tinybuild CEO admits publisher is using AI tools to monitor employees (www.gamedeveloper.com)
and subsequent update to the headline, which reads like kind of a backpedal from the CEO:...
Genshin Impact voice actors allege they haven't been paid in months (www.gamedeveloper.com)
New Colorado tax credit includes boon for game developers (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Developers making games in Colorado can now apply for a 20 percent tax credit.
Report: Valve won't publish Steam titles that use AI-generated content (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Creating the creepy, salty world of Dredge (www.gamedeveloper.com)
On the latest Game Developer podcast, we talked to Black Salt Games about their spooky fishing game Dredge.
Why Alan Wake 2 conjured two protagonists for the survival horror sequel (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Alan Wake II game director Sam Lake explains why the titular protagonist isn't the only playable character in this long-awaited sequel.
UK Games Fund nets extra £5 million to offer more support to devs (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Lucas Pope is releasing a mobile version of Papers, Please (www.gamedeveloper.com)
BazaarBot: An Open-Source Economics Engine (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Not quite procedural generation, but it is a simulation that can be applied to emergent content generation....
