I’ve been seeing a bunch of video ads on Facebook of games that are similar to Tetris. I find them mesmerizing and oddly satisfying to watch. But when I tried downloading a few of these games, they are nothing like what was shown in the ad.
I just don’t get why game developers do this. You went to the trouble of making a program to do a certain thing so you could create an ad to trick people into downloading a completely different program. Why not just create the game you figure people want to play? If you’re able to create the program to show in the ad, why not make that the game?
Yeah but I don’t get the purpose of lying. Why not just actually create the game they’re advertising? If they can make the ad, can’t they make the game?
Nope, the ad video is just an animation, nothing actually functions. Making a functioning game is MUCH harder to do, and requires MUCH more time and money. (Relatively speaking)
It’s the difference between creating a movie set that looks like a skyscraper vs. creating an actual skyscraper. Creating a mock up of something is always going to be much cheaper and easier than building the actual real thing