Andrea Contato

Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts is coming soon.

And in the meantime, you can read a full chapter for free :)

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Coming soon: Video Games: Stage 3 and The Story of LucasArts Stage 3: From 1985 until 1989 - Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts

Don’t miss the end-of-month Kickstarter: Video Games: The People, Games, and Companies - Stage 3 (1985–1989) and “Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts.”

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Through the Moongate: The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima part 1 and Video Games Stage 1 are free on from Amazon. All the other ebooks at a discount. Go and get them :D

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Coming soon: Video Games: Stage 3 and The Story of LucasArts Stage 3: From 1985 until 1989 - Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts

"Video Games Stage 3 From 1985 to 1990" and "Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts"

#Kickstarter campaing will be in late october/beginning of November.

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Last few hours to get a super bundle with 66 high quality books :)

YouTube video by GameDev Breakdown Author and Designer Caleb J. Ross on the GameDev Breakdown Podcast

Back already to close out this StoryBundle season with @calebjross.com on the #GameDev Breakdown pod! We discussed life with all first names, the compulsive urge to try everything, throwing up in a VR headset, and more. Join us on YouTube, Spotify, or podcast places.

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🦈 My book Suddenly I Was a Shark! is part of a massive 65-book #videogame StoryBundle! DRM-free, pay-what-you-want, & only for a limited time: storybundle.com/games?utm_so...

Introducing the Greatest Hits 2 bundle of ebooks—65 books about #gamedev and gaming culture! Available from @story-bundle.bsky.social for a limited time. Check out the bundle here: storybundle.com/games

Retro Game Books is part of the latest Story Bundle: The Greatest Hits Game Bundle 2. There's 65 awesome books in total. 👉 storybundle.com/games

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Bybyggerspillenes forfar: The Sumerian Game Vi har snakket med spillhistoriker Andrea Contato om The Sumerian Game.

Vi har snakket med spillhistoriker @andreacontato.bsky.social om The Sumerian Game, forfaren til dagens bybyggersimulatorer.

The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders We spoke with historian Andrea Contato about The Sumerian Game from 1964.

I interviewed @andreacontato.bsky.social about The Sumerian Game, an ancestor of today's city builders. You can read about it here:

The first part of the printed book shipment has arrived. Here are some photos of The Sumerian Game: A Digital Resurrection and Video Games Stage 2: From 1980 to 1984.

Missed the KS? You can still get your book here
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A better looking version of The Sumerian Game family tree. 11 years of game design and programming in just one infographic :)

The complete story in The Sumerian Game: a Digital Resurrection.

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You can also play the games on Steam for free.

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What are you waiting for? Try it now :)

And if you like to know more about its story, check my book The Sumerian Game: A Digital Resurrection.

The Sumerian Game on Steam A game of strategy and management. The Sumerian Game is one of the earliest computer games. Developed and programmed between 1963 and 1965, it was designed to teach children math, economy and ancient ...

Now you can also play The Sierra Leone Game on Steam.
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It was developed in mid '60 along with The Sumerian Game and it was the very first computer game featuring, an introduction, a tutorial, tooltips, and even a quiz to test the player and promote them.

The Sumerian Game on Steam A game of strategy and management. The Sumerian Game is one of the earliest computer games. Developed and programmed between 1963 and 1965, it was designed to teach children math, economy and ancient ...

Coming soon in the next update of The Sumerian Game — free on Steam! :)

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Welcome to Setats Detinu!
The Pollution Game is the middle ground between King of Sumeria by Dyment and Hamurabi by Ahl.
Its creator, Storer, integrated into the gameplay of the Sumerian Game some mechanics he had developed for Lunar Lander, which would later become a standard in the computer games.

Preview of the much less verbose FOCAL-8 version of King of Sumeria (1969). Barebone text and no "continue?" feature. Hamurabi won't go on strike ;)

Preview of the much less verbose FOCAL-8 version of King of Sumeria (1969). Barebone text and no "continue?" feature. Hamurabi won't go on strike ;)

Preview of FOCAL8-5 aka The Sumer Game. Much more verbose than the following versions, it had the "do you wish to continue?" feature that was later removed. It also had the "Hamurabi on strike" part that David Ahl included in Hamurabi. Thanks @katewillaert.bsky.social for the source code.

The first game with cutscene? The Sumerian Game (with a slide projector).
The first game with an intro? The Sierra Leone Game.
The first game with a tutorial? Again, The Sierra Leone Game.

I'm working to rebuild it!

A small preview of The Sumerian Game 2.0. Lots of different versions to play and a few nice details, like the input text in red. IBM 1050 teletype was able to print in 2 different colors and the letters typed by the player were printed in red.

Soon...

I'm working on version 2.0 of The Sumerian Game for Steam. What's new?
It has more game modes, more history, more informations, more achievements.
Are you ready to dive into the history of computer and simulation games?

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The Sumerian Game: A digital resurtection (italian edition) on display at ComoFun (italy).

The Sumerian Game on Steam A game of strategy and management. The Sumerian Game is one of the earliest computer games. Developed and programmed between 1963 and 1965, it was designed to teach children math, economy and ancient ...

And try yourself the Sumerian Game rebuilt. It's free.

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Video Games: The People, Games, and Companies - Part II Stage 2: From 1980 until 1984 - The Sumerian Game: A Digital Resurrection

To know more, check the book The Sumerian Game: A Digital Resurrection.

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As a researcher and video game enthusiast, I can only appreciate how the work of women—whether teachers or researchers, writers or programmers—has been of immense importance even before the birth of the video game industry.

Mary Grace Pethick Robinson was a science teacher involved in numerous research, including writing school textbooks and recording chemistry lessons that were broadcast via radio. She worked on the software to simulate a chemistry lesson on a computer. Her death in 1965 brought the project to an end.

At the end of the summer workshop in 1962, The Sumerian Play was halfway between a role-playing game and a board game. Mabel Addis Mergardt wrote the final texts (and rewrote them after 1965) and refined the necessary mathematics to adapt the game for a computer.

Harriet Greenberg Forsythe taught in the schools of the Yorktown Heights school district for 33 years. She took part in the summer workshop in 1962 where "the Sumerian Play" was created.