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It depends. There are some people here and there. But also, you don't need to be a hardcore gamer to do a LOT of the technical work in gaming. Mostly you just need to be really good at coding and somehow prefer decent snacks and a lax dress code to money and job stability.

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GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Technically you don’t need to be a gamer at all to work in gaming if you’re a good developer, but the question is why? Because my experience has been that you get decent snacks and lax dress code in addition to money and job stability. From my experience the only reason to go into game dev is because you want to work on games. If that’s not the reason you’re just better off doing tech work elsewhere.

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- MudMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, no, we're not disagreeing here. Absolutely go spend a decade sorting out a single form in a banking software thing. It is objectively the better choice.
  
  All I'm saying is the few people who get into it non-vocationally are mostly there for the vibes.
  
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  - GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Bro, banks are one of the worst places to work. I would rather work as a game dev than go into banking. There are infinitely better places to work at but if your experience is only between banking and game dev then I can see how game dev could look much more appealing.
    
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