A couple of months ago NFTs (or Non-Fungible Tokens) were all the rage. Pretty much every graphic artist I know was silently jumping on the bandwagon. Axie Infinity, the first breakaway gaming success story was making it into the mainstream press. Many of the biggest gaming companies rushed to announce…

“Nothing sucks like Lectrolux” Arriving in Finland many exchange students will, as students do, organize a student party. What any proper dorm party needs are ample amounts of beer and snacks to go with it. These young people will thus congregate around the supermarket aisle stocking such products, only to…

How understanding human visual systems and image processing can help create more striking app icons. — There are over 2.2 million apps on offer in the Apple App Store on iOS. Google Play Store offers 3.4 million apps, according to data for Q1 of 2021. As an app publisher, your organization is paying dear money for the user acquisition. According to date from ironSource, the average…

We live in an age marked by technology. The world we inhabit is radically different from the one we used to live in even just 10 years ago. I am old enough to remember the pre-internet age; the time when you had to manually punch in a phone number whenever…

Intro So far a good chunk of my game design career has been spent working on one title, SimCity BuildIt. It remains the game to which I am very much emotionally attached, probably because I learned so much while working on it. Over the years there have been very many features…

“I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.” — HAL 9000 …

I recently learned that the generation to which my son belongs is called the Generation Alpha. He was born in 2012, into a world of streaming music and videos. He was happily punching his way on the iPad even before he was able to properly walk. …

This is a text that I have wanted to write for a very long time. I have been working in the games industry for a better part of a decade. Games for smartphones are my specialty. I got my start back in the day when premium casual games dominated the…

The first time I heard the name Adam Smith was while playing Sid Meyer’s Colonization, the same goes for John Paul Jones and Bartolome de las Casas. My childhood was spent playing PC games from the 16-bit era. There are many ways one can learn about the geography of the…