I’ve been a game programmer for >10 years and I would be fucking miserable if I spent most of my free time with video games as well. Isn’t that what we call work/life balance? And from my experience, most game devs either stop being “gamers” at a certain point, or they burn out and quit the video game industry.
That being said, almost everyone I know from gamedev is really excited about video games, and they have a ton of experience, even if they are not playing games in their free time anymore. It could be because I’ve only worked for indie projects and small publishers.
I’ve been a game programmer for >10 years and I would be fucking miserable if I spent most of my free time with video games as well. Isn’t that what we call work/life balance? And from my experience, most game devs either stop being “gamers” at a certain point, or they burn out and quit the video game industry.
That being said, almost everyone I know from gamedev is really excited about video games, and they have a ton of experience, even if they are not playing games in their free time anymore. It could be because I’ve only worked for indie projects and small publishers.