--- title: Welcome to ExDev Week | daily.dev description: GamesIndustry.biz is launching ExDev Week, a series of features, interviews, and analysis focused on external game development studios. The week explores... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-to-exdev-week-yc6puoydh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Welcome to ExDev Week | daily.dev og:description: GamesIndustry.biz is launching ExDev Week, a series of features, interviews, and analysis focused on external game development studios. The week explores... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-to-exdev-week-yc6puoydh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Yc6PuOyDh.png og:image:alt: Welcome to ExDev Week og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Welcome to ExDev Week **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GamesIndustry.biz is launching ExDev Week, a series of features, interviews, and analysis focused on external game development studios. The week explores themes like co-development, asset creation, engine support, balancing work-for-hire with original IP, and building client trust. It also examines whether external development is truly a sustainable alternative to large internal teams amid widespread layoffs and budget pressures across the games industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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