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Written by. Nick Mosier based on the original Japanese article<\/a> (original article’s publication date: 2022-06-21 12:53<\/em> JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n



Many gamers are knowledgeable about the released games they\u2019ve played, but how much do they know about how they were made? With many people not being familiar with what making games entails, there are likely many aspects of the process that game developers wish players better understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PushDustIn, who works at Kyoto-based VR\/AR game developer CharacterBank as a PR\/Community Manager, took to Twitter on June 17 (JST) to poll game developers about what they wished the public knew about making games. The tweet ended up getting a big response from developers, and we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce some of them here.
[Update 2022\/06\/23 10:15 JST] fixed PushDustIn’s business title<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/PushDustIn\/status\/1537598685625737216\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To start, PushDustIn gave two examples from their own experience. The first being that \u201ca good idea doesn\u2019t make a good game. A good team does.\u201d No matter how good the idea is, it lives or dies based on the people behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is how development cycles have a list of priorities. We\u2019ve likely all played a game and thought \u201cwhy didn\u2019t they implement this feature or that feature?\u201d In PushDustIn\u2019s example, something like a serious bug may have taken priority even if it was something the developers wanted to implement.


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Game Development is Hard<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1. Over their careers most devs work on multiple games that never ship. Often for years on each project.

2. Making a game takes so long that usually the recent hit game everyone accuses devs of \u201ccloning\u201d hadn\u2019t even been released until the project was half done. https:\/\/t.co\/neWHCXYQps<\/a><\/p>— Greg Borenstein (@atduskgreg) June 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>