{"id":136201,"date":"2026-08-11T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:29:15","slug":"according-to-a-survey-conducted-by-gamescom-dev-speakers-artificial-intelligence-is-anticipated-to-influence-team-structure-and-productivity-in-the-gaming-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136201\/","title":{"rendered":"According to a survey conducted by Gamescom Dev speakers, artificial intelligence is anticipated to influence team structure and productivity in the gaming industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gcdev-announcement-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"321\"\/> Image credit: Gamescom<\/p>\n<p>Gamescom Dev&#8217;s yearly speaker survey indicates that 83% of participants foresee AI affecting how teams are organized or their efficiency levels.<\/p>\n<p>Among 100 surveyed speakers, nearly 50% pointed out that AI-supported development will be the most notable industry trend in the next three years. This prediction is followed by the influence of hardware and RAM costs (28%), the creator economy (7%), and user-generated content (5%).<\/p>\n<p>Preference for limited AI role in development dropped to 30% from last year&#8217;s 33%, while 34% of the respondents believe AI will most significantly enhance code creation and production.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing AI&#8217;s effects on jobs, 36% expect changes in roles rather than fewer team members, and 33% foresee smaller teams. Meanwhile, 14% predict that individual productivity will rise, and 17% do not foresee any reduction in workforce size.<\/p>\n<p>The survey identifies economic uncertainty as the foremost challenge for the industry, with market saturation (38%), discoverability (35%), and escalating development costs (30%) also being major concerns.<\/p>\n<p>To boost discoverability, the survey participants suggested increased transparency in platform algorithms (32%), enhanced store recommendations (22%), and more tailored editorial features (21%).<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the future, 37% see smaller teams as a major opportunity, with community engagement and new publishing models each receiving 15% support.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions on the dominating business or monetization model in the next three years are varied.<\/p>\n<p>The survey shows digital and physical premium games leading at 29%, with live service models (24%) and free-to-play games with in-game purchases (21%) following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Gamescom Gamescom Dev&#8217;s yearly speaker survey indicates that 83% of participants foresee AI affecting how teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,67513,67511,67512,1163],"class_list":["post-136201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-gamescom-2026","tag-gamescom-dev-2026","tag-koelnmesse-gmbh-gamescom","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}