More game developers are starting to use generative AI

A photograph from the GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 event.

More video crippled developers are utilizing generative AI tools successful their jobs compared to past year, according to the GDC Festival of Gaming's latest yearly manufacture survey. Forty percent of developers surveyed accidental they usage it "as portion of their job," an summation from 36 percent successful 2025. Usage was higher with crippled developers that enactment connected free-to-play games astatine 58 percent and mobile-only workplace workers astatine 70 percent.

The survey is being published arsenic the crippled manufacture continues to reckon with generative AI tools. While galore crippled developers, peculiarly indie developers, person spoken retired powerfully against the technology, AI is astatine the halfway of indie awa …

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