Gamedev.js

Survey 2023

Andrzej Mazur • @end3r • Enclave Games
W3C WebDX CG meetup, online, February 1st 2024

Gamedev.js community

• 2012: Local meetups in Poland
• 2014: Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter
• 2020: Gamedev.js Jam (second to js13kGames)
• 2021: Gamedev.js Survey

Survey info

• 2023: December 8th-22nd
• Run by me (and my wife)
• Google Form, manual results
• Web gamedev community

35 questions about:

• Demography
• Work experience
• Development
• Graphic design, sounds and music
• Testing and publishing
• Monetization
• Blockchain
• Happiness

Survey count

2021: 437

2022: 338

2023: 491

Questions and answers on GitHub

Worldwide

82 different countries

Technologies

AI for graphic assets

Monetization

Happiness

Q & A

• What prompted you to run such a survey in the first place?
• What you expect to get out of it, how it influences things you may do otherwise
• The methodology you followed to prepare questions
• Things you'd like to explore further (realistically or assuming infinite resources ;))
• Areas where you would welcome help (e.g., questions design, survey UX, interpretation of free form results, results analysis, publication of raw data, outreach, etc...)
• More...?