[headstorm]

I don't know the answer to that question, but Card was an editor for Compute! books for nine months[1](video interview), and in that role wrote a two-part series about computer game development 40 years ago, in issues 38[2] and 39[3] of Compute! magazine.

[1] https://archive.org/details/orson-scott-card

[2] https://archive.org/details/1983-07-compute-magazine/page/n3...

[3] https://archive.org/details/1983-08-compute-magazine/page/n7...

[pcthrowaway]

His book Lost Boys (which is supposedly semi-autobiographical) is told from the perspective a mormon game developer.

I'm convinced he's dabbled in programming, even though it's not his vocation.