Do your friends and family see game development as a real job?

Depends on how you frame it. I don’t work and develop “games”. I work and develop “interactive software”.

My Fam automatically thinks anything involving computers is super complex and non relatable.

But at the end of the day, my name is the first mentioned, when their internet goes down or any I can not log into my email problem they have.

I’m not a Game Developer. I’m the family IT guy.