New appreciation for programmers

Question

I have made and released my first app game as some of you may know. While it is a very simple game and far from perfect, I came to realize some things while making it. I never truly appreciated the entirety of the work that goes into making games. We can see and appreciate most aspects of a game. They code a button press, we see a result. They code a UI, we see a result. But I never stopped to think about the little things we don't see. The stuff in the background that is equally important

Answer 1

In my simple game for example, you get the target, it moves to a seemingly random point on the screen and a new mine pops up as a new hazard. 2 things I had to code was a way to make sure the target never pops up on top of a mine and becomes ubreachable, and when a mine is created it can't popup right where the player is. these 2 little things are never noticed, but as the dev of the game I had to take them into consideration, come up with a solution, and code a fix for them. The only way things like this would be noticed, is if they don't work properly.

It made me think about games I am playing in a new way that only a programmer would ever even consider.