What is a developer and what do they do?

What is a developer and what do they do?

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Developers are basically people who make the game. They're the studio, the coders, the artists and the designers who actually sit down and put the game together. Developers work over the course of couple of years, usually, and deliver to the publisher, who will actually disseminate the game and put it on the shelves.