Chapter 2
Roles in the Game Industry
The video game industry is relatively young compared to other creative industries. The breadth of things considered video games is also quite large: It can encompass everything from mobile games made by individuals, to AAA online video games created by teams of more than 100 people, to military simulation games, to an infinite number of other variations. Games more broadly span everything from board games, to card games, to sports, to all the other variations of games. Different games are created in different ways and require different team members.
A game developer (or game dev) is anyone who directly works on a video game, whether an engineer, a designer, or a sound tech. In some companies, only programmers ...
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