# Video games

`TODO`

## Articles

* [These video game landscapes will make you nostalgic for worlds you’ve never visited](https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13338/digital-video-game-art-russian-winter-6vcr)
* [The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits](https://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-games-history/)
* [Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games](https://longreads.com/2021/10/07/deeper-than-pixels-a-reading-list-on-video-games/)
* [Computer Game Play Reduces Intrusive Memories of Experimental Trauma via Reconsolidation-Update Mechanisms](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526368/)
* [So You Want to Compete with Roblox](https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-roblox/)
* [Игры, в которых нужно писать код: Grid Garden, Elevator Saga и другие](https://habr.com/ru/company/vk/blog/328806/)
* [Sid Meier and the Meaning of "Civilization"](https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/sid-meier-and-the-meaning-of-civilization)
* [Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?](https://commoncog.com/blog/playing-to-play-playing-to-win/)
* ['Cookie Clicker' Wasn't Meant to Be Fun. Why Is It So Popular 8 Years Later?](https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bypk/cookie-clicker-wasnt-meant-to-be-fun-why-is-it-so-popular-8-years-later)
* [Text Adventures](https://www.theverge.com/22321816/twine-games-history-legacy-art)
* [Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step)](https://www.filfre.net/2021/02/ultima-viii-or-how-to-destroy-a-gaming-franchise-in-one-easy-step)
* [The Card Player's Guide to Lockdown](https://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/the-card-players-guide-to-lockdown.html)
* [Games for a Plague Year](https://www.dampfkraft.com/games/games-for-a-plague-year.html)
* [ROBLOX is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds & MMORPGs](https://felipepepe.medium.com/roblox-is-a-mud-the-history-of-virtual-worlds-muds-mmorpgs-12e41c4cb9b)
* [Factorio and Software Engineering](https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/)
* [How To Get Worse At StarCraft II](https://illiteracyhasdownsides.com/2020/06/13/how-to-get-worse-at-starcraft-ii/)
* [Running decade-old games in containers](https://misha.brukman.net/blog/2020/04/running-decade-old-games-in-containers/)

## Courses / Videos

* [RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island](https://youtu.be/9F9ahZQ7oP0)
* [The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)](https://youtu.be/xgqEneDNQto)

## Digital distribution platform (video games)

* [GOG](https://www.gog.com/)
* [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/)
* [Origin](https://www.origin.com/)
* [Epic games](https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/)

## IT games

* [Screeps: World](https://store.steampowered.com/app/464350/Screeps_World/) - open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts
* [while True: learn()](https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn/)
* [Code combat](https://codecombat.com/)
* [Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/)
* [Nandgame](https://nandgame.com/) - Building a Modern Computer From First Principles

## Links

* [Gameboy.Live](https://github.com/HFO4/gameboy.live)
* [Awesome PICO-8](https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8)
* [Awesome Programming Games](https://github.com/readyready15728/awesome-programming-games)
* [Awesome Educational Games](https://github.com/yrgo/awesome-educational-games)
* [Games on GitHub](https://github.com/leereilly/games)