Problem is that games development is a high risk business. Having experience to restrict the scope and goal of your game is probably as important as to be able

Problem is that games development is a high risk business. Having experience to restrict the scope and goal of your game is probably as important as to be able to solve the technical challenges. But even if you release a game, you have to have some luck to get people to play it since the market is well saturated. Much comes down to luck when you release and how your game is discovered. Of course there is a difference if you make a mobile puzzle game or want to implement the game you always dreamt of which probably is massive in scope. Agree though that the skills are mostly transferable.