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Lowellian suggested that this article be merged with game designer. I disagree since the term "game developer" is more generic than "game designer." In computer and video game development, the game designer is a specific and unambiguous role. Every person involved with the creation of the game can be referred to as a "game developer" including the game designer. Now this is probably not true in the case of developers of other types of games mentioned in the article, but the game designer article is almost completely about the computer and video game designer role. Merging it with this article would unbalance it. Instead, I've expanded the definitions a bit and provided links to other articles for those interested in those specific roles. Below is a comment from the article proper which Lowellian removed with his edit:
Lowellian stated in his edit:
I don't think the issue is about the size of companies. Most video and computer game developers have very distinct roles which contributers play. Many of those involved with the creation of video/computer games do contribute to the game design, but the one person who has the final say of what goes into the game is the game designer. All this is mentioned in the game designer article.
If you feel we need to merge this article with the game designer article, please discuss it here first before re-inserting the merge message or merging the articles. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:30, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
I'm having a hard time following your logic. I'm trying to, but I'm not having much luck. Here is my position:
Yes, Gary Gygax is a game developer and a game designer. "Game developer" (or "video game developer") is an umbrella term that encompases many other, more specific roles. "Game developer" is a super-set of "game designer", "game programmer", etc.
Also, often the term "video game developer" is used to refer to the companies that develop the games as well.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this matter here. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:21, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Slike, for taking the time to clarify things. I had grown weary of this discussion and was waiting for someone (like you) to come along and settle things. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 02:08, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
What happened to game designer/developer for NON-video games? To assume all games are a subset of video games is incorrect, and they all appear to have been consolidated under video. The designer of Magic the Gathering, a collectible card game, is a game designer/developer, but not a VIDEO game designer/developer. MinervaZee ( talk) 16:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Note that this page has been converted to a disambiguation page as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game developer. Eldar 01:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move ( non-admin closure) Red Slash 22:54, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Game developer → Game Developer – I am surprised that game developer is not a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to video game developer. Everything else on the DAB page is not nearly as relevant. But due to Gamasutra's upcoming name change to Game Developer (website) the DAB page should probably still remain, just at the proper noun version. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 23:10, 23 August 2021 (UTC) ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 23:10, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Make it into a third person view open world game add future thing in it and time travel back to the past 108.56.187.148 ( talk) 01:17, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
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Lowellian suggested that this article be merged with game designer. I disagree since the term "game developer" is more generic than "game designer." In computer and video game development, the game designer is a specific and unambiguous role. Every person involved with the creation of the game can be referred to as a "game developer" including the game designer. Now this is probably not true in the case of developers of other types of games mentioned in the article, but the game designer article is almost completely about the computer and video game designer role. Merging it with this article would unbalance it. Instead, I've expanded the definitions a bit and provided links to other articles for those interested in those specific roles. Below is a comment from the article proper which Lowellian removed with his edit:
Lowellian stated in his edit:
I don't think the issue is about the size of companies. Most video and computer game developers have very distinct roles which contributers play. Many of those involved with the creation of video/computer games do contribute to the game design, but the one person who has the final say of what goes into the game is the game designer. All this is mentioned in the game designer article.
If you feel we need to merge this article with the game designer article, please discuss it here first before re-inserting the merge message or merging the articles. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:30, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
I'm having a hard time following your logic. I'm trying to, but I'm not having much luck. Here is my position:
Yes, Gary Gygax is a game developer and a game designer. "Game developer" (or "video game developer") is an umbrella term that encompases many other, more specific roles. "Game developer" is a super-set of "game designer", "game programmer", etc.
Also, often the term "video game developer" is used to refer to the companies that develop the games as well.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this matter here. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:21, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Slike, for taking the time to clarify things. I had grown weary of this discussion and was waiting for someone (like you) to come along and settle things. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 02:08, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
What happened to game designer/developer for NON-video games? To assume all games are a subset of video games is incorrect, and they all appear to have been consolidated under video. The designer of Magic the Gathering, a collectible card game, is a game designer/developer, but not a VIDEO game designer/developer. MinervaZee ( talk) 16:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Note that this page has been converted to a disambiguation page as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game developer. Eldar 01:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move ( non-admin closure) Red Slash 22:54, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Game developer → Game Developer – I am surprised that game developer is not a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to video game developer. Everything else on the DAB page is not nearly as relevant. But due to Gamasutra's upcoming name change to Game Developer (website) the DAB page should probably still remain, just at the proper noun version. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 23:10, 23 August 2021 (UTC) ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 23:10, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Make it into a third person view open world game add future thing in it and time travel back to the past 108.56.187.148 ( talk) 01:17, 25 June 2024 (UTC)