{"id":581530,"date":"2026-08-11T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581530\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:32:09","slug":"gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581530\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamescom Dev speaker survey identifies potential impacts of AI on team structure and productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact team structure or productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the 100 speakers surveyed identified AI-assisted development as the most significant industry trend for the next three years, followed by hardware and RAM prices (28%), the creator economy (7%), and user-generated content (5%).<\/p>\n<p>30% of respondents prefer minimal AI involvement in development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/devcom-speaker-survey-highlights-mixed-attitudes-towards-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> down from 33% last year.<\/a> In contrast, 34% believe code and production would benefit most from AI assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding AI\u2019s impact on jobs, 36% believe it will change roles rather than reduce team sizes, while 33% expect smaller teams. 14% anticipate higher individual output, and 17% do not expect workforce reductions.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of respondents identified economic uncertainty as the industry\u2019s biggest challenge, followed by market saturation (38%), discoverability (35%), and rising development costs (30%).<\/p>\n<p>To improve discoverability, respondents want greater transparency in platform algorithms (32%), better storefront recommendations (22%), and more curated editorial coverage (21%).<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, 37% of respondents view smaller development teams as the greatest opportunity, followed by community building and new publishing models (both at 15%).<\/p>\n<p>Respondents expressed mixed views on what business or monetisation model would dominate the market over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Digital and physical premium games led with 29%, followed by live service (24%) and free-to-play with in-game items (21%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-581530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}