For game job seekers, the search often leads outside of gaming

Amir Satvat has been churning out one study after another on the game job market, and his latest one shows that those seeking game jobs are often forced to take jobs outside the industry.

That’s not particularly good news for those job seekers, but the silver lining is that at least many of them find jobs.

In his latest report, there is more data that isn’t quite as bleak as it seemed before. Satvat, who works at Tencent in business development by day, has been providing game job resources by night to those who need it. And from that, he has gained more than 100,000 followers on LinkedIn and turned up a lot of data on game job seekers since November 2022. He now has about 22 months of solid data from that community.

One survey of 1,200-plus game people showed that on average they have ...