The Acagamic

Jam — Not Crushed Fruit If you are study­ing game devel­op­ment or just are a hobby pro­gram­mer, chances are that you have heard about the Nordic Game Jam, which is a gath­er­ing of peo­ple inter­ested in game devel­op­ment that camp together and cre­ate a game around the clock for a few days (usu­ally a week­end) in Europe. The con­cept is [...]

The sum­mer is hot — not only in terms of weather or the won­der­ful German soc­cer team, but also con­sid­er­ing the amount of lec­tures I will be giv­ing dur­ing my stay here in Germany, mostly at the IJK in Hannover. My stay was kicked off two weeks ago, when I met com­pe­tent German addic­tion researcher Ralf Thalemann, [...]