In a Gamasutra article by Tim Carter, CEO of game producing company Core Talent Games Ltd; Tim gives his case for why the gaming industry (or at least, the developers and the producers) would benefit from a strong Game Developers Guild. He expresses how hard it is for any developer not already well-routed in one of the giant publishing houses to get their idea passed and turned into a suitable product for both the developer and the producer.

He brings up the fact that every major entertainment industry has guilds of their own, and that having a GDG would bring stabilization and opportunities to the free agent game development world.

It would seem that a Guild for the Gaming Developers would be a worthwhile venture, maybe not for the Cliffy B’s of the world who already have it made but for the up and coming new talent that, by the time they’ve climbed the corporate ladder high enough and are in a position to see their dream project come to fruition, the passion just isn’t there anymore. That or the project was green-lighted yet twisted so out of shape during development that it hardly resembles the project first visualized by the fresh up-and-coming game developer.

Maybe Double Fine wouldn’t have had to take so long with their games if there was a sturdy Developer’s Guild already there to back their projects so that Schafer wouldn’t have had to keep shopping his game around to publishers he hoped would see his point of view?

Hell, maybe the saga of Too Human wouldn’t have ended the way it did if the title had been backed by this hypothetical GDG, helping the project get out on time and in a state that didn’t seem like the title was constantly falling apart after being worked on for over a decade. Guild funded time and money could have turned that project into something more than decent, maybe even up to a standard resembling that of greatness? Maybe? No? Not even a guild would have been able to-? Well, the industry has been young for decades now, and the onset of game developer guilds may be the next big step in it’s evolution as a unique entertainment medium. – The Ben