Ask HN: Laid-off devs who left tech?

4 months ago 4

Our tech sector in general is in hot water, but gamedevs are getting massacred [0].

The stories I hear is they're taking on contracting work to survive, risking it all as an indie, or going into manufacturing (typically as quality assurance managers.) That last one seems surprising, but it's more common than you'd think.

Source: I run a community full of gamedevs.

[0] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/topics/layoffs

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