As far as my opinion goes, I lump game software in with other software. There is definitely a more artistic element to games than there is to most productivity

As far as my opinion goes, I lump game software in with other software. There is definitely a more artistic element to games than there is to most productivity software, but I think that people still really don't think about the person behind it like that would with a novel. EDIT: Ah, but here's an interesting example. How about text adventure games? Interactive fiction? I really enjoyed the Infocom text adventure games, and came to appreciate the writers behind them -- Steve Meretzky, Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, etc. But as much as I enjoyed those games, for what came after Infocom's demise, I never got much into anyone else's interactive fiction. Very likely it was superior software, but I was accustomed to those particular writers, and just wasn't (and haven't been for decades) in the mood much to pick up another author's text adventure game.