title: What's the difference between game development and business development?
body: <p>Like most developers, I'm a business developer, which in essence consists of slapping a UI onto some back-end data store. (We all know there's a lot more to it than that, but that's usually what it boils down to.)</p>
  
  <p>I understand that game development is very different from business development, but I'm having a hard time explaining it to a friend of mine. I was hoping the SO community could help me out here.</p>
  
  <p>To me, modern game developers deal a lot with manipulating 3-dimensional graphics. In gaming code (and I'm guessing here), you're assembling polygons (or something like that), rotating 'em, etc. This involves a different way of thinking from manipulating relational data (for instance). I don't know, really. I just know it's different.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I should stress that by "development" I mean "programming," not all of the aspects that go into creating a game or piece of business software. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear originally.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>