First off sleeping under desks is a project management failure and not representative of the games industry. Heaps of people making games that haven't worked a

First off sleeping under desks is a project management failure and not representative of the games industry. Heaps of people making games that haven't worked a day of overtime for years and years. But as you say, boring business logic is boring, so no surprise that people would be interested in games for that reason alone, but more than that, game programming isn't the same sort of work as other programming. Are there jobs for graphics programmers working on some business spreadsheet software company? If you want to do graphics programming you need to work in an industry that needs graphics programmers. Doesn't really matter that you're not the Miyamoto. There's lots of programmers in leadership roles solving hard and interesting problems that don't exist in other sorts of business software.