BossKey Newsletter 5

Indie Dev Recounts his Steam Launch, Unity & Bytedance Layoffs, Local Gaming Companies call for more Government Support

November 30, 2023

Game Dev

Jordy Lakiere from Belgium talks about his journey to develop an indie game and launching it on steam, We are About to Die, an indie area RPG Battle Arena Rouglite, in the Roman Coliseum Era, May do a deeper dive into this another time another post.

Looking at his Youtube Logs it looks like he took 7 years to develop this game.

This was the earliest video I could find

A bit more earlier video abut 5 years into development.

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Game Dev News

Local gaming developers call for more support to ease talent and funding crunch

Singapore offers a gateway to the growing market in Asia, but experts said there may be some more levelling up to do to get a slice of this pie.

Unity Layoffs Weta Digital. and shut downs offices around the world, Berlin and Singapore.

Bytedance (Tiktok) Layoffs Hundreds, Shuts Down Gaming Division

But games creation is a notoriously fickle business. Since last year, ByteDance began to shutter in-house studios and slash development jobs, after shifting its focus to core businesses like short-video and e-commerce. This month, it also cut almost a quarter of its staff at virtual-reality arm Pico.

  • TikTok’s owner will slash hundreds of jobs in games creation

  • It’s also seeking to sell existing gaming titles from Nuverse

Interview with Niko Partners

Dan Houser Absurd Ventures Files new trademarks

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