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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 209455, member: 77791"] I think a person can always make money, but a video game developer cannot always work on a fun project that doesn't feel like everything about them is wasted. Sometimes what you developed is the fun thing that you enjoyed, not the game you developed that you would admit "damn even I wouldn't play it". The background of development is really something else, a game in its own context you have to do. Coming up with ideas and realizing them by figuring out with the codes you have no idea how it works but it does work anyway fills you with a sense of satisfaction. IMO developing options of the game is the hardest part of the game, when I did it for the first time it was so amazing. It was so amazing to able to change the volume of everything separately and even able to save it. This was rocket science for me than actually developing the game aspect of the program. So there is "self-satisfaction aspect" of video game development that prevent the developer from realizing how bad their game is. You can't see fault in them despite how buggy mess it can be. Perhaps it's what it feels like to be able to love your own son despite he loves to lick the floor lololol. So what is important for developers to focus on is actually developing a video game people from many generations will enjoy playing. For example even to this day kids enjoy Deus Ex 1. When new generation video game developers believe "success" of a video game is "at least 2 millions profit", for me the real success of a video game is developing a video game that even people of far future from 2100 or something able to enjoy it. This is such a video game I would like to develop. Perhaps many developers and teams start this journey which such dreams, but then they settle with one game idea they always wanted to realize. And then they feel satisfied despite it didn't sell well. It was like "things to do before I die" thing. [/QUOTE]

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