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This is the infamous "stack fallacy" https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-fai...

The idea that the layer above your own is trivial to build (e.g. biology is just chemistry, or chemistry is just applied physics)

At some point I built a little 2d game engine, but the same amount of time would have been better served actually building a game in Unity. Eventually I solo developed a full 3d VR app for the MetaQuest.

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I'm out of the industry now, but I kept doing this for a while. I would want to "scratch an itch" and build a game out of hours. After a few attempts I realised I don't actually want to build a game, I want to build an engine

Haha I've been there!

I was just browsing a few of your past comments and see you were in gamedev in Melbourne. Maybe we've crossed paths - I was at Blue Tongue until we were shut down by THQ, then Tantalus for a year or two, then freelance for a while, and the last seven years I've been at Sledgehammer Games Melbourne.

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