layout: post title: Into the Breach – Design with Constraints categories: game-design tags: GameDesign ConstraintsDriven CreativeProcess IndieGameDev StrategyGames GameDev — Embracing constrain...

I can find educational aspects in any game; however, each time I enjoy as a kid, I found an educational game, especially in such genre as Idle/clicker. I’ve mentioned one recently, and today I want...

As I’ve mentioned earlier, the Atari era passed me by, so I’ve been reading up on this console and its games. I was surprised to discover that there was an educational programming game in 1979 call...

This year, I decided to reread and complete the entire Naruto saga. I read it many years ago and remembered it as a great story about ninjas, superpowers, magic, and willpower. But I didn’t remembe...

An idle game, also known as incremental games or clicker games, is a genre of video games where players perform simple actions, such as clicking a button, to generate in-game currency. Most are mat...

Jupyter Notebooks is a popular tool for data analysis and scientific computing, however I’m using it as a tool for game design. Jupyter Notebooks can be a good replacement for traditional tools lik...

Another type of serious game that can be used in education is simulation games or “God games,” where the player has god-like powers to affect weather, change the environment, and maybe even physics...

One type of serious game those are trying to accept the public attention to some problems around us and make the world better this way. It doesn’t mean the such game should be too “serious” and for...

For me, the first programmer’s game was Colobot – real-time strategy with 3D graphics. Players take on the role of an astronaut who must land on a planet and use robots to gather resources, constru...

Recently I’ve met an interesting game Agents of Influence – a spy-themed educational video game that teaches students how to recognize and combat the misinformation they encounter in their daily li...