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There are many game devs who don't play games. A lot of artists would rather be working on movies, and a lot of programmers who just love to program.

The best game devs all do though.

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But are these game devs designing the gameplay loop? Or are they working on backend, like the engine?

I could imagine a (solo) game dev not self-describe as a gamer, but they must have some intuition about what makes (video/board) games fun and engaging.

I can't imagine you can obtain that without ever playing games yourself?

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