You’d be surprised with how many people in a large studio don’t play games. Not every job requires an understanding of games. Only a small amount of people work on gameplay. Like artists don’t need to like games to be good artists. A graphics programmer can build a great real time graphics renderer without having played any game. They just need to have a passion for programming graphics. The only people that should love games are the people that work on gameplay. Like the director, gameplay leads, QA etc.
Why work in games then you ask. Because many of those jobs only exist in the games and movie industry. Like 3D animators aren’t exactly in demand outside of those two industries.
also yea this. though for me, my passion for games slowly died out as i became a gamedev. now almost a decade of work in it and minus a few indie games like hollow knight and deltarune, i dont play much. it feels wrong knowing everything and the industry so deeply
plus i work as a marketing and technical artist. most games i’ve worked on i havent played, i design their posters, covers, logos. i do play the games when i make trailers and in-game materials like screenshots and dev looks. but other than that i dont, and not really even by choice. most of the time the game isnt in a playable state when my work starts.
most professions under gamedev umbrella dont need and hence arent given the chance to play the games until after release anyways. for me atleast, i do love the work i do, it is fun to do that work. but playing the games i worked on is rarely as fun.
You’d be surprised with how many people in a large studio don’t play games. Not every job requires an understanding of games. Only a small amount of people work on gameplay. Like artists don’t need to like games to be good artists. A graphics programmer can build a great real time graphics renderer without having played any game. They just need to have a passion for programming graphics. The only people that should love games are the people that work on gameplay. Like the director, gameplay leads, QA etc.
Why work in games then you ask. Because many of those jobs only exist in the games and movie industry. Like 3D animators aren’t exactly in demand outside of those two industries.
also yea this. though for me, my passion for games slowly died out as i became a gamedev. now almost a decade of work in it and minus a few indie games like hollow knight and deltarune, i dont play much. it feels wrong knowing everything and the industry so deeply
plus i work as a marketing and technical artist. most games i’ve worked on i havent played, i design their posters, covers, logos. i do play the games when i make trailers and in-game materials like screenshots and dev looks. but other than that i dont, and not really even by choice. most of the time the game isnt in a playable state when my work starts.
most professions under gamedev umbrella dont need and hence arent given the chance to play the games until after release anyways. for me atleast, i do love the work i do, it is fun to do that work. but playing the games i worked on is rarely as fun.