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…

Did you cancel your HBO+ subscription when Game of Thrones ended? Did you ever sign up for a free month trial just to cancel your subscription immediately when it expired? …

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” — F. Herbert

As game makers, we want to make games. There is a certain profound feeling of accomplishment from bringing joy to other people. Yet making games is hard. …

The Learning Curve

Have you ever started a new hobby, only to drop it after a few weeks? You might have paid a membership fee to a club, bought fancy equipment, and even paid for classes, only to give up after a couple of months. It might have been pottery classes, it might…

“Da li da poginem ili da uginem” — Block Out

The other day I was listening to a song by one of my favorite alternative rock bands from the late nineties, when suddenly I come to a realization how utterly untranslatable the lyrics above actually are. It struck me as…

The tales of great success suffer from survivorship bias. We often get to see great creations of the human mind and endeavor only in their final form. We get to marvel at the perfection of artistic and engineering perfection without actually thinking about the design process that leads to its…

As I am about to start a new job in a new company, I have decided that it would be a good time to put in writing some of the principles that I intend to use as a guide in this new adventure as a game designer. What follows is…

This text is sort of an addendum to my previous post about perceiving randomness. In this one, I go a bit on a tangent and discuss things such as the evolutionary roots of our pattern-recognizing brain. …