One interesting aspect of games is that they allow to get feedback on dynamical processes of different kind. Imagine, that when you read books on world history for example by Fernan Braudel and also you can visualize, how the inventions spread over the world, the trade rotes emerge and when their intensity increases there are more cities and wealth of the world growth. The whole picture how the civilization changes perceived in dynamics. This will enrich the understanding of history, will allow to formulate new ideas on what factors affected past and could help find how will be affected our future.

I chose to graduate as engineer in dynamics of space vehicles. During university years my first programs were simulation of stabilization and descending processes for space apparatus. What fascinated me - was a sense of life of these technical devices. You could play with parameters and see how the behavior changes. There were also courses on dynamic of battles and dynamics of industrial processes. So this knowledge allowed me to look into details of different processes.

The story was that when I graduated - the defense space industry in Russia was in collapse, so I had to chose another way to earn for food.

For quite a while I worked in game development industry and wrote code to simulate air defense, air planes, vehicles. But also I got knowledge on entire set of algorithms which allows to develop games - those which concern graphics, network, artificial intelligence.

Looking where the whole game development industry is now I think that the era of
plenty of different simulation of processes is still to come.

And I want to participate in creation of this future.

First I will start from simple things like -how to set up working environment, how to write simple programs, how to add sound, graphical interfaces, network capabilities and then will extend these foundations to the variety of different examples to simulate things.

Why to develop games?

The world is changing. The coming of the book in 15th century

changed European society [1], making significant effect on the development of humankind

in the following centuries. Appeared not so long ago personal computing and internet did the profound change. Still there are a lot of areas where the effect could be much greater. Such areas as education, professional training, industrial planning. And while many areas of software development are quite mature and archived almost a peak in it’s evolution, games, simulators and virtual reality applications started to develop in relatively recent times. Not may early hopes come true. Still it is possible to image a world where all education is provided in a form of entertaining games, all professional training instead of boring lectures is held in realistically looking virtual environments. And there is a lot of to be done in archiving this goal. And while following the way – the world will be changing and becoming better.

So I can say that like to books games are agents of change. The change which will be profound and participating in the process is an entertainment itself.

To be continued.

Hello

First post on blogspot.

I have already had some experience to blog in russian at livejournal.com for some time. That one was more about local politics. And this one, hopefully will be completely devoted to gamedev.