I come from an era of 8 bit computers (Zx81, Commodore 64 , Amstrad CPC 464) and was always fascinated by how games were created, and indeed what makes a game addictive.
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Abstract Art
You spent 50 hours drawing, keep it up!
Kurt Gödel
You spent 200 hours coding, keep it up!
Kurt Gödel was a logician, mathematician and philosopher. His work on the logical consistency of mathematical systems lies at the foundation of modern computer science.
Cubism
You spent 20 hours drawing, seems more than just a hobby!
Active Community Member
You made a public post in the community forum!
Bertrand Russell
You spent 100 hours coding, keep it up!
Bertrand Russell was a British mathematician, philosopher and logician. His work had a considerable influence on computer science.
Level Design Expert
You spent 2 hours working on maps, O.M.G!
Senior Level Designer
You spent 1 hour working on maps, starts looking like an addiction!
Regular Level Designer
You spent 30 minutes working on maps, amazing!
Junior Level Designer
You spent 10 minutes working on maps, well done!
Surrealism
You spent 10 hours drawing, isn't that crazy?
Level Design Rookie
You started creating a map, keep it up!
Emile Baudot
You spent 50 hours coding, keep it up!
Emile Baudot was a French telegraph engineer and inventor. He created the first binary encoding system for communications, and today's modem speed unit baud is named after him.
Expressionism
You spent 5 hours drawing sprites, O.M.G!
Ada Lovelace
You spent 20 hours coding, seems more than just a hobby!
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer. She anticipated applications beyond pure calculation to Babbage's Analytical Engine, and created the first algorithms for such a machine.
Game Jam Contender
You made a submission to a microStudio Game Jam
Post Impressionism
You spent 2 hours drawing sprites, starts looking like an addiction!
George Boole
You spent 10 hours coding, isn't that crazy?
George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He formalized Boolean algebra, the basis for digital logic and computer science.
Charles Babbage
You spent 5 hours coding, O.M.G!
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, engineer and inventor. He originated the concept of a programmable general-purpose computer and designed the Analytical Engine.
Impressionism
You spent 1 hour drawing, amazing!
Renaissance
You spent 30 minutes drawing, well done!
Greek Art
You spent 10 minutes drawing, keep it up!
Joseph Jacquard
You spent 2 hours coding, starts looking like an addiction!
Joseph Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He built and demonstrated the Jacquard loom, a programmable mechanized loom controlled by a tape constructed from punched cards.
Cave Art
You started drawing!
Gottfried Leibniz
You spent 1 hour coding, amazing!
Gottfried Leibniz was a German mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He made advances in symbolic logic and his work was crucial for the theoretical foundations of computer science.
Blaise Pascal
You spent 30 minutes coding, well done!
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher. He invented the mechanical calculator.
Recognition
Your public project received 5 likes!
Al Jazari
You spent 10 minutes coding, keep it up!
Al Jazari was a Muslim scientist, artist, mathematician living in Mesopotamia. He invented an astronomical clock considered the first programmable analog computer.
Al Khwarizmi
You actually started coding!
Al Khwarizmi was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. His name gave rise to the term 'algorithm'.