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First Programmer's games

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...

Agents of Influnce game

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...

The Value of LitRPG for Game Designers?

LitRPG is one of my favorite genres in fantasy. If you don’t know, LitRPG is a subgenre of fantasy (or sci-fi) literature that combines elements of traditional fantasy with video game elements, suc...

Is there book summary AI?

As a passionate reader, I completely understand the desire for a service that provides summaries of books, especially for those that are part of a series. However, keeping track of all the plot poi...

Steam Replay Tags 2022

This year I got interesting stats from Steam about my playing in 2022. Even if it’s only steam games where I mostly play indie games, one of the diagrams took my attention – the spider graph of mos...

Tiny Lime Clasts

This lovely article about the durability of Roman concrete attracted my attention as I like that period of history and its engineering side. However, this quote from the article is the most interes...

Art of Tekken Book Review

One more book from the “Art of …” series, and this time it’s “Art of Tekken”. For me Tekken and Tekken 2 are games somewhere near Mortal Kombat first 3 games – so many hours spent there with friend...

What is Edufication?

Edufication is one more way to combine games and education with Gamification and Game-Based Learning. Edufication is using educational elements in non-educational contexts. Like Gamification, Edufi...