{"slug": "gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure", "title": "Gamescom Dev speaker survey identifies potential impacts of AI on team structure and productivity", "summary": "Gamescom Dev's annual speaker survey of 100 industry professionals found that 83% expect AI to impact team structure or productivity, with nearly half identifying AI-assisted development as the most significant trend for the next three years. The survey also revealed that 36% believe AI will change roles rather than reduce team sizes, while 33% expect smaller teams, and 34% think code and production would benefit most from AI assistance.", "body_md": "# Gamescom Dev speaker survey identifies potential impacts of AI on team structure and productivity\n\nNearly half of respondents expect AI-assisted development to be the most significant industry trend for the next three years\n\nGamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact team structure or productivity.\n\nNearly half of the 100 speakers surveyed identified AI-assisted development as the most significant industry trend for the next three years, followed by hardware and RAM prices (28%), the creator economy (7%), and user-generated content (5%).\n\n30% of respondents prefer minimal AI involvement in development, [ down from 33% last year.](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/devcom-speaker-survey-highlights-mixed-attitudes-towards-ai) In contrast, 34% believe code and production would benefit most from AI assistance.\n\nRegarding AI’s impact on jobs, 36% believe it will change roles rather than reduce team sizes, while 33% expect smaller teams. 14% anticipate higher individual output, and 17% do not expect workforce reductions.\n\nMore than half of respondents identified economic uncertainty as the industry’s biggest challenge, followed by market saturation (38%), discoverability (35%), and rising development costs (30%).\n\nTo improve discoverability, respondents want greater transparency in platform algorithms (32%), better storefront recommendations (22%), and more curated editorial coverage (21%).\n\nLooking ahead, 37% of respondents view smaller development teams as the greatest opportunity, followed by community building and new publishing models (both at 15%).\n\nRespondents expressed mixed views on what business or monetisation model would dominate the market over the next three years.\n\nDigital and physical premium games led with 29%, followed by live service (24%) and free-to-play with in-game items (21%).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure", "canonical_source": "https://www.gamesindustry.biz/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure-and-productivity", "published_at": "2026-08-11 14:05:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 14:22:37.027565+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Gamescom Dev"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gamescom-dev-speaker-survey-identifies-potential-impacts-of-ai-on-team-structure.jsonld"}}