Gaming broadly is not a counterculture, but it's generated plenty of counterculture. Gamemaking wasn't seen as a creative endeavor worth serious commentary by t

Gaming broadly is not a counterculture, but it's generated plenty of counterculture. Gamemaking wasn't seen as a creative endeavor worth serious commentary by the mainstream culture, the effort to make it so was countercultural. A lot of indie games were (and still are) made 'in opposition to mainstream aesthetics' or mainstream concepts of narrative or play. It's harder to draw the distinctions as clearly because technology has massively sped up the cultural mixer. Youtubers and streamers have eroded what passed for mainstream game 'reporting' faster than we can decide whether that's counterculture or not. That's not something, say, zines did or could do.