game developer

Interactive entertainment creator

A game developer is a person or company that creates video games, handling design, programming, art, and other aspects of production.

Individual developers range from solo indie creators to specialists at large studios: She works as a game developer at Ubisoft.

The term covers both the creative work and the business of making games.

Opposites
creator vs. consumer

game developergamer

Video entertainment enthusiast

player · end user · consumer · casual gamer · hardcore gamer

building vs. destroying/critiquing

game developergame critic

Evaluates interactive entertainment

game reviewer · game tester · beta tester · game journalist · hacker

digital vs. analog media creation

game developernovelist

Writer of prose narratives

filmmaker

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G