Game Developer? Why?

Babar · Thu 09/05/2013 04:01:40

Assuming you're here developing games (although I suppose a sizable portion of you all are simply here to play games), I was wondering why.
I was wondering why about myself too....not sure I could pin it down. Why do you develop games? Why do you start out developing a game? What pulls you through it to the end of the game? What brings you back to develop another?

Is it the enjoyment of the adulation of fans

? The money being showered on you? Do you have some inner mission driving you to tell some specific story? Do you simply invent challenges for yourself and enjoy puzzle solving? Do you have some inner mission involving advancing video gaming as a medium? I've heard people say they enjoy making games they'd like to play. Is it about enjoying exercising your creativity? Why choose video games for that? Perhaps it is a quirk of the sort of adventure games we make here, but while I certainly try my best to make games I wouldn't hate, aside from bug testing or checking something, I have to admit, I don't much care to play through my own games.

Armageddon · Thu 09/05/2013 04:51:16

Because I can.

ThreeOhFour · Thu 09/05/2013 05:51:16

Babar, my sweetie, you overthink everything.

Designing games is fulfilling for many reasons - a sense of achievement, a method by which to learn new skills, the ability to tell a story. Sometimes you even get to make money on top of all that.

The reason for developing games is because it's enjoyable. The reason for the specific medium is because we're a fan of that medium. What more reason do you need?

CaptainD · Thu 09/05/2013 08:40:15

I think for most of us it started with playing adventure games and getting to the point where we think - "I'd like to make something like this!".

Technocrat · Thu 09/05/2013 10:46:42

It's because I have plots in my head, and I need to get them out *somehow*, but I don't quite have the capital to finance a major motion-picture.

miguel · Thu 09/05/2013 11:39:43

Because game developers are cool at the moment.

Ghost · Thu 09/05/2013 11:42:45

I just keep making games because I am addicted to the clack-clack sound of my keyboard.

No. Worldbuilding, storytelling, the ability to take a story, out of my head, and make it real for other people to play. I rarely try to wow people with super-cool and extraordinary puzzles, I want to tell small tales.
It's also nice to watch download counters counting up, I guess. That means that people are LIKING what you made for them.

Andail · Thu 09/05/2013 12:16:59

I'm only in it for the chicks.

Edit:
Misspelled chicks. I had seven words to keep track of and I failed

Darth Mandarb · Thu 09/05/2013 12:45:50

For me it's that "something from nothing" feeling. You have an idea for something (story, movie, game, website, etc) and you, from nothing, create something.

It's an amazing feeling of satisfaction watching it grow and evolve as you develop it.

Personally I don't care how many people download it. If only 1 person plays/reads/views it I just hope that 1 person enjoys and appreciates it.

Oh, and for the chicks

Lt. Smash · Thu 09/05/2013 14:14:52

Money, money, money

No I'm not developing just because of the money. Developing is my passion. It gives me a wonderful feeling to create something new that the world hasn't seen yet.
I totally have to agree Darth. It's great to be able to fabricate something from out of absolutely nothing and then duplicate it for the world without any cost.

Oh and for the chicks, of course

Radiant · Thu 09/05/2013 14:31:20

Because we are the movers and shakers of the world, forever, it seems.

selmiak · Thu 09/05/2013 16:25:41

GFX, CODE & POINT 'N CLICK!

Chicky · Thu 09/05/2013 20:59:30

To finally feel what it is like to have released one of these fabled 'point and clickers'

Grundislav · Fri 10/05/2013 01:24:32

Because.

Baron · Fri 10/05/2013 03:11:42

It's a cheap hobby, and I like the challenge of actualizing a vision. But mostly I'm in the scene for the WILD PARTIES!!!!!!

Armageddon · Fri 10/05/2013 03:17:10

Quote from: Grundislav on Fri 10/05/2013 01:24:32
Because.

Taking my words and saying them more eloquently.

SinSin · Fri 10/05/2013 17:07:54

I'm with Chicky, Baron and Darth here, but yet I have never finished one ... because I destroy myself and say everything I do is poo ... I am my own downfall...and apparently a regular Mr Buzzkill lol

LimpingFish · Fri 10/05/2013 20:07:41

I don't know why. It just seemed like something to do.

InCreator · Sat 11/05/2013 11:56:08

Urge.
No other way to explain this.
Urge.

AnasAbdin · Sat 11/05/2013 17:05:31

If one single person spent time and enjoyed a game I made then I'm fulfilled! I like making people happy!