RE: Game Developers Look to Bridge Communications While Others Look for Unity

Jan Cumps — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:07:52 GMT

by submitting a politically laden topic by an official contributer, the community may find itself into a situation where we don’t want to be. I have seen similar posts gone awry on other forums.

we have been free of religious and political topics. Why initiate this?

RE: Game Developers Look to Bridge Communications While Others Look for Unity

jomoenginer — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:45:11 GMT

I heard this discussed on a recent Game Dev Unchained Podcast and it is interesting the game developers are considering unionizing. This gets discussed in many areas of the Tech Industry in the US and not just games. But, considering many, if not the majority, of states in the US are Right-to-Work states, companies in these states are not required to hire someone from a union based organization and there is no requirement for a person to be forced to be part of a union to work in a particular industry. However, IMHO, if Game Developers, namely those in California, want to continue to lose jobs to other states and other countries, then that is what they will face if they do unionize.

I believe the game developers being more vocal of the issues in the industry and calling out companies that abuse the current labor laws will eventually force these companies to make changes, although it does seem that many have already done so. The other option would be to go the route of TellTale Games which was a very bad situation, but in all reality it was just business.

Then again, you do have the Carmack's that will just bang on a keyboard until they pass out just to get a polygon to move in a new and interesting way.