10 Things Video Game Developers Wish You Understood Better

10. Artists Don't Fix Netcode

"Well, like, uh, OBVIOUSLY!", screeches a Derisive Daniel from the back of the classroom. "Everyone knows THAT!".

Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you? But time and time again, individual developers with absolutely nothing to do with the feature or system in question will receive torrents of caustic hatred which they... well, can't do anything about.

Most recently, a dear colleague of mine received a private message on Twitter which read, "stop posting about your ****ing cat and get your ****ing online fixed!".

He's a vehicle artist.

Of course, you'd be forgiven for thinking this is more an issue of common sense as opposed to a 'gamer thing', but this occurs very frequently, with a large number of my current and ex-colleagues regaling others with their own tales of "the gamers shouting at me to do something I have no clue about".

Think of it like this - you wouldn't scream at a physiotherapist to hurry up and administer your anaesthetic, would you? Screech at a website designer to help you hack into the pentagon?

And even giving the benefit of the doubt and imagining a hypothetical situation where we DID sit right next to the online folks, do you think we're going to look at it and think, "oh, Frank the online coder really needs to see this cruel insult, that'll make him work even harder"?

In summary... specialist titles aren't just there for show. Just ask me to try to rewire your house with my concept art skills, and you'll see just how specialised I really am.