eternauta [none/use name]

There was a not-great show called Mythic Quest about an MMO company a few years ago that had an episode about the “games as art” question (the question itself has some problems). The writer hired to make lore for the game felt games had no real artistic value. The plucky QA tester decided to prove he was wrong by showing him sad cutscenes from AAA games, totally missing the idea of what makes games unique - it felt like TV writers trying to show how games could be spruced up with prestige melodrama.

Carmack seems to be a libertarian creep, but he was committed to open sourcing each version of the engine. That ended when MS got involved.