Xbox 360 | American developer tally stalls as Canada's explodes
Census of game makers finds slight growth in US industry for 2009 while northern neighbor's community jumps 31%.
Despite a year riddled with layoffs, closures, and cutbacks, the American game developer community actually expanded in 2009, according to a report from Game Developer Research. The group's third annual census found a bump of less than 1 percent in the number of people employed in the US gaming industry, while its Canadian counterpart enjoyed an employment surge of more than 31 percent for 2009.
According to the report, cutbacks in many sectors of the US gaming industry were offset by a crop of new social and online gaming studios. In 2008, the census found the US gaming industry employed about 44,400 people, while this year's tally edged upward to 44,806. California represents nearly half of that total with 20,815 gaming employees, followed by Washington (more than 4,500 employed) and Texas (2,600). Five other states also boasted development communities over 1,000 people.
As for Canada, the census showed new studios cropping up, as well as expansion of major company's existing studios. With growing development scenes in Vancouver and Montreal, as well as a fledgling community in Toronto, Canada's developer base jumped from 9,500 in 2008 to 12,480 in 2009.
More on the survey from Game Developer Research can be found on the group's official site.
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Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6244579.html
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