game design - What's the difference between Gameplay Programming and Graphic Programming?

I know the answers are obvious, someone told me this: Graphics Programming: DirectX(or Direct3d), OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal..

Gameplay Programming: Bringing everything together. From design, music, levels, etc.

But could you please explain me in depth the difference? This way i can focus on a specific role in game programming!

Answer

Graphics programmers do tasks like the following:

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  Implement high-level effects like bloom, chromatic aberration or object outlines

  
  


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  Write low-level code to handle API (D3D, GL etc.) objects for textures, buffers, shaders etc. that the high-level functionality is built upon.

  
  

Gameplay programmers:

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  Call functions that graphics programmer wrote or let scripters call them.

  
  
  


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  Write a save/load system

  
  


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  Handle game state (player's health, weapons etc.)

  
  


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  Player and camera movement code etc.