20 amazing things you never knew about game developers
Game developers are an important part of the process of making video games. Without game developers there wouldn’t be as many games. Here are 20 amazing things you never knew about game developers.
1. Game developers work in large groups because it makes them feel safe.
2. Except indie’ game developers, who prefer to work in small groups or completely alone because they are more creative and quirky.
3. Game developers refer to lunch time’ as crunch time’ because it’s when they eat the most crisps.
Prolific
4. Nintendo game developer Shigeru Miyamoto is responsible for more than 80% of all games that have ever been developed.
5. Some game developers are French, like David Cage.
6. Graphics and sound and explosions are some of the things game developers are responsible for developing in a game.
7. English game developer Peter Molyneux was once ejected from the annual Game Developer’s Conference for stealing cheese from another game developer’s lunch box.
Desert
8. The game developer responsible for Atari 2600 movie tie-in and financial flop E.T. was buried at an undisclosed location somewhere in the New Mexico desert.
9. A rare sleep disorder means Gran Turismo game developer Kazunori Yamauchi can only stay awake for 35 minutes every day.
10. More than seven million individual game developers have worked on the Call of Duty series at one time or another.
Studious
11. Famous musician David Bowie is a fully qualified game developer.
12. Game developer John Carmack has developed his own language which only he can understand.
13. The collective name for a group of game developers is a shagger’.
Underwater
14. If he wanted, game developer Gabe Newell could afford to buy his own nuclear submarine.
15. Some game developers find hair difficult, so they give characters hats or balaclavas.
16. Thanks to an ancient Scottish by-law, armed guards at controversial game developer Rockstar North are permitted to shoot on sight’ any unwanted visitors to its premises.
Winner
17. Hideo Kojima has won the Best Dressed Game Developer’ trophy 14 years in a row at the annual Game Developer Fashion Awards.
18. Since completing work on Spore, game developer Will Wright has retired to a hidden facility on the Moon.
19. Some game developers use false names, like Suda 51, Notch, and David Cage.
20. Japanese children are taught game development from the age of four as part of the national curriculum.
There are lots of other amazing things to learn about game developers. If you know any game developers ask them to tell you about some of them and then you could make your own list. We made another list a bit like this one, it’s called ‘20 amazing things you never knew about game controllers‘. Please read it. Please.
