&gt; Artists, lagging behind in new technologies, still didn&#x27;t embrace these projects as means to self promotion.<p>No, they don&#x27;t. Look at the various art communities (DeviantART, Tumblr, etc.). Much like open source, there&#x27;s a vast amount of art being put out there for free for the sheer fun of it as well as for self-promotion.<p>I think the issue with open source games is simply social and cultural: there wasn&#x27;t an effort to involve artists from the beginning, and so they didn&#x27;t get involved.