I’m pretty sure these are companies both seeing less sales in the post COVID era as well as realizing how much they can do with AI that they don’t need so many people for. I hope at least this further reduces crunch culture once we come out the other side.

Thankfully even though the shovelware era is really upon us now, I think there’s never been a better time to throw your hat into the ring as an indie or solo developer, if you have the guts or chops for it. Not a ton of competition coming out and FOSS tools and cheap marketing opps are more available than ever before. Steam deck really broadens the demographic and AI tools make multiple hat wearing devs more productive than ever before. At some point these AI games are going to take over, so if you always thought you would never have the resources to get your passion project done, perhaps now is a good time to reconsider.