I have an extremely cursory view of game development. I like reading/listening to dev interviews, read a gamasutra article from time to time, and will watch some of the GDC talks. One of the big things I've come away with is that a lot of game development seems to be a huge disconnect between game development and the people that play games. Even the "dumbest" games seem to need some insanely smart project managers, programmers, artists, marketers, etc. behind them. It's a totally different industry than the one I am in, but they have the same conferences, project management requirements, production, expertise as any other profession out there.
Playing games on the other hand takes little to no real effort compared to effort it takes to make them. It feels really really odd being able to blow through a game in a weekend, when I know that it was literally thousands of hours of labor/schooling/crafting to get that thing in my hands. I have literally no stake in the games I play, I just play them, I enjoy them, then move onto the next one. Hell, the thing is literally designed for me to beat it.
So to bridge that gap juuuust a bit, game devs, what do you wish people who played games understood better? Whether thats about making games, playing games, discussing games, etc. Is there something out there that you wish players just had a better understanding of?
Playing games on the other hand takes little to no real effort compared to effort it takes to make them. It feels really really odd being able to blow through a game in a weekend, when I know that it was literally thousands of hours of labor/schooling/crafting to get that thing in my hands. I have literally no stake in the games I play, I just play them, I enjoy them, then move onto the next one. Hell, the thing is literally designed for me to beat it.
So to bridge that gap juuuust a bit, game devs, what do you wish people who played games understood better? Whether thats about making games, playing games, discussing games, etc. Is there something out there that you wish players just had a better understanding of?