Learning Game Design™

This is not really a review, but more of a remembrance.

I think any proper gamer has certain classics in mind in terms of what games have stuck with them from childhood. Something that really defined a particular period of childhood and influenced drawings, writings and so on. For some, it’s the Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Ice Climber (the favorite NES game of a certain old Finnish president) or Halo. Then there’s the guys who spent countless days and nights with roleplaying games or old, incomprehensible Avalon Hill strategy boardgames. For me, it was something different…

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