IGDA launches survey to discover the pulse of game developer community

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 18, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
1 min

The International Game Developers Association has launched a new annual research survey to find out the level of satisfaction that game developers have about quality of life and diversity issues.

The nonprofit group is the largest that serves game developers, who are attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week. The survey is timely because the GDC is stepping up its discussions of advocacy issues around sexism, racism, homophobia, and Internet haters during the gathering of an estimated 22,000 developers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.