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Ask HN: Why I rarely see game dev startup here?

19 points blindprogrammer | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

Do investors despise game development companies, and do you have to go solo? If so, I would have expected to see at least one on Show HN. Or maybe I missed it—definitely not as popular as other apps.

Also, why haven’t LLM wrappers penetrated this sector? Is it because OpenAI and other “parasites” haven’t had the opportunity to access source code to build their wholesale theft, so they don’t have the code to instruct you to build games? Or maybe there are a lot, and I just missed them.

1. paulwilsonn ◴[01 Nov 25 12:27 UTC] No.45781126[source]▶
That’s a really good observation- I’ve noticed the same. I think it’s because game dev and startup culture overlap less than we expect.

Game dev usually leans more art and creativity than problem-solving or scalable business models.

Different mindset, funding path, and timelines. Though lately, game dev tools and AI pipelines are starting to bridge that gap.