This is one reason why I like to engage with indie games, since their creators are often people we can finger by name. Clint Hocking and I both disagree with Ebert games are, indeed, authored works.
I bring this up not to malign Ebert, who was brilliant, and whose opinion was unfairly maligned often, but as a conversation-starter about the idea of games and authorship. This is partially because they are often a result of design by committee, but also because they only “exist” as a conversation between the game itself and its player.
Roger Ebert once claimed that games are difficult to consider as “art” because they do not have specific authorship.
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