Games developer here. Yes, I do work insane amount of hours and I would get paid a lot higher for my skills almost anywhere.
Why? We use technology not to 'disrupt' some industry, get bigger returns for a financial firm or big data problems with users information. Instead, we create software with the sole purpose of making people happy, And we also get the chance to tell stories that will influence thousands maybe millions of minds.
So we are in a never ending search for big insights about the world and ways to encode them into fun games. I'll never grow tired of that.
Why? We use technology not to 'disrupt' some industry, get bigger returns for a financial firm or big data problems with users information. Instead, we create software with the sole purpose of making people happy, And we also get the chance to tell stories that will influence thousands maybe millions of minds.
So we are in a never ending search for big insights about the world and ways to encode them into fun games. I'll never grow tired of that.