How Many Game Developers Are There In North America?
The above question is what our Game Developer Research division, in the form of Alistair Wallis and a cadre of helpers, has been pondering for the last few weeks, and we just debuted a Gamasutra story with the results, as follows (we’re selling the report to outsourcing firms and other services companies so they can get a head start on who lives where in the North American game biz): “The CMP Game Group’s Game Developer Research division has revealed its first-ever Census – determining, through in-depth research, the number of people working within video game development and publishing in North America. The key findings of the Census include the fact that there are more than 39,700 professionals developing or publishing games within the United States, with more than 8,100 professionals doing so across Canada. More than 46% of all of those creating games within the United States (around 18,300 employees) are based in California, with Washington (11.63%) and Texas (7.37%) rounding out th
