I do think the because it is 3d is an oversimplification but to me it is valid. Of course design is a lot of logic, but that isn't the only place the fun lives. Most of the fun is in the visual enviroment.

Uhh…this comes from an insanely programmer-biased perspective.

I imagine you’ve probably been a software dev for a long time - and come from a history of game dev?

(Ha - yeah - you did. I looked you up, you worked on ‘Bioshock’? It is to my credit that I could figure that out before I looked it up, though.)

You see - unlike the ‘00’s - Unity, and even recent UDK updates, etc - have created a fairy “plug and play” sense of game development that was a fever dream in the ‘90’s, and even most of the ‘00’s.

The tech has changed - the approach has changed, massively.

I mean - hell - even 10 years ago cross-platform shit was a nightmare compared to today. It’s because a lot of that underlying code has been taken care of for 90% of average developers. Only AAA developers need worry about low-level shit.

We are very much living in a design-first era. Which is - frankly - awesome. But it’s so easy to forget that or not see that as primarily a developer.