[pekk]

What if people want to develop game engines? What if people want to play games? What if personal passions are an important part of life? What if it isn't your time to allocate, but theirs? What if throwing a bunch of game developers onto protein folding wouldn't really help with protein folding anyway?

[ddorian43]

I think we throw protein-folding onto young game-developers somehow.

[corysama]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit has inspired several "do real science as a game" games.

[kej]

Plenty of people bought graphic cards to play games and use them for protein folding in their spare time, thanks to Folding@Home. Sometimes leisure activities produce practical results.

[ddorian43]

You're right, but I was talking about game-creators, not players.