Academics do make novel games! The 'walking simulator' genre and the 'idle clicker' genre were both spawned in academia. However they weren't made by those in t

Academics do make novel games! The 'walking simulator' genre and the 'idle clicker' genre were both spawned in academia. However they weren't made by those in the computer sciences, but the humanities. Coding is no longer a barrier to making games and the more fertile ground is currently in the humanities.