We speak to the team behind Dead Island 2, Skate 4, and more on how they feel about 2023.
2023 was certainly a tumultuous year for the video game industry, for good and for bad. For consumers, it was great! For the industry itself, certainly less so. With record-breaking layoffs across the gaming and tech sectors, strike authorization for video game voice actors approved for American unions, and various companies being hacked: the gaming space has taken some serious blows this year.
We reached out to various video game developers over the past month to ask what they thought of 2023. For many, it’s been a year to celebrate as new projects are thrust into the spotlight. For others, a bittersweet 12 months in which sweet highs have been bittered by worrying industry trends. As we jump into the new year, we’ve featured these quotes below for your reading pleasure. Here’s to 2024.
Dambuster Studios – Dead Island 2
“It’s impossible to think about 2023 without seeing it through the lens of the last few months where so many other passionate game makers have been impacted by the turmoil that is currently ripping through our industry, so first of all any sentiment should really acknowledge the shock, stress and uncertainly many will be struggling with and hope that it passes as swiftly as possible.”
“On the flipside, 2023 has been a bloody awesome year for Dambuster and the culmination of a five-and-a-half-year journey to bring Dead Island 2 to players. For many people in the studio this has been their first game release and it’s been fantastic to share that experience with them, we delivered a stable, performant, multi-generation, multi-platform, multi-player game across ten SKU’s and the actual code burnt to disc was damn well worth playing, we’re rightly proud of that fact and the nomination at the 2023 Game Awards for Best Action Game is fantastic way to close the year out.
