“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As they should. Host it in a non-hostile country, it’s quite simple.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Canada is lovely nice cozy not hostile this time of year! I mean, it’s a frozen tundra, but you won’t be pulled out of your car and killed by secret police looking for people they don’t like.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Makes me wonder how American Truck Simulator devs will make the rest of the states, and at the same time not surprised they are creating a Canadian map next instead of more states.

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  • crazyinferno@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah exactly — this barely seems like a story

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They used to host it in other places like europe and china, but i guess they scale it down after the decline of these sort of convention. It’s near impossible to do it these day because they’re not the only player in the room, and Steam have Next Fest

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the case for our small studio. It’s simply not safe to bring in our foreign designers.

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been to GDC. Definitely a blue haired leftist vibe with a lot of attendees. And also “I can’t afford to be detained for months nor do I want to subject myself to that” vibe as well. So CBP being allowed access to their phones during immigration screening, where they have definitely written negative comments about the Trump admin is not something they’re super excited about.

  Plus America also committed a genocide in Palestine and now is doing ww3. Idk. I think the networking parties will be less fun but we’ll see.

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