“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” — O.C. Bible Intro A lot of dust has risen around the recent advances made by AI, especially the new neural network models dealing with language and art creation. …

I am old enough to remember when Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson originally hit the bookstore shelves. It was the early ‘90s and I was in my teens. Our computers still squeaked out a sequence of high pitch noises whenever they tried to connect to a network. …

There are many types of game designers. There are many areas of our discipline which you can specialize in. When asked, what kind of a game designer am I, usually I tend to define myself as a systems designer. Making long term retention features is my specialty. …

Life in a modern video game studio might look like a decadent offshoot of a very sophisticated society. After all, what we do is to make a peculiar form of entertainment that relies on a veritable mountain of advanced technology to even function. …

“Build the city of your dreams” Introduction Hindsight is always 20/20. In the perfect world, with the perfect knowledge, and the perfect information, unlimited by such trivialities as time, schedule, and resources, you could have figured it all out before launching your game globally. Sun Tsu says, “You should attack the…

Each craft has its own jargon and so does the project management. …

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. …

“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…