How Developers Make Video Games

Dennis Brännvall, the lead designer for Star Wars Battlefront, has recently ‘snapped’ at a troll on Twitter who called him and the team behind the game lazy. The tweet has since been taken down, although there a copy available, but this whole story raises a more interesting and fundamental question – what do game developers exactly do at work? What are their duties and responsibilities? Is making video games interesting and fun like playing them? Let’s have a look.