| Maybe because software stacks better. I have tried solo game dev off and on for years and found game dev exactly the same as all other art forms - You either make it or you don't, and almost nobody makes it. The difference being that a game is expected to ship all its own assets. The game's exe plays the game's audio and renders the game's graphics and runs the game's logic. And I can only play one game at a time and listen to one song at a time, so why buy a bunch of games? But a video codec works on millions of existing movies, so anyone watching _any_ movie needs a video codec. And a VM can run _any_ OS. And a network can transfer _any_ data. Now we're talking about products that complement each other instead of only competing. Sometimes I've had more fun writing tools, because the sum of my own hammer and a world of nails is greater than trying to make my own nails from scratch. So ah, don't go into game dev lol. I nearly did, then I got a generic CS degree and made lots of money doing software that solves existing problems and doesn't try to create a standalone world. |