Gamedev.js

Survey 2024

Andrzej Mazur • @end3r • Enclave Games
W3C WebDX CG meetup, online, February 20th 2025

Survey info

• Yearly since 2021
• 2024: December 4th-20th
• Results published Jan 29th
• Google Form, graphs prepared manually
• Full answers on GitHub

40 questions about:

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

Survey count

2024: 620

2023: 491

2022: 338

2021: 437

All questions and answers on GitHub

Worldwide

77 different countries

Technologies

Similar to last year (added Gamepad API just now).

Monetization

None slowly dropping, $1k slowly growing.

AI sentiment

New question, mostly negative sentiment.

Happiness

...even better than last year, 7-8 moving to 9-10.

Next steps

• Questions and answers review via GitHub
• Running it in the middle of the year, not in December