Gratz! The serious achievement.

Hike, Playing Games (Rogue Prince should defeat huns :-) ) and spending time with my family (seriously, I start thinking kids' growing time compression is exponential).

> We stripped the fun out of learning (and work!) not because it didn’t work—but because fun was seen as dangerous. I think one of the reason why fun was removed, because education became "mass-product" for schools -- the conveyer. And as for most of mass-products, especially if its controlled by governments, bureaucrats are coming. To make education fun you need to have teachers who haven't burned out to ashes. Sadly, the "conveyer" works not only for kids -- many teachers are "3d printed soldiers" too. Eastern Europe education system is very centralised usually and more controlled by officials, so it means more bureaucracy. How to get around them -- thats what I tried several times and just gave up on that field.

@Rob Alvarez Before Game Dev and Education, I worked several years in official structures, thats why I'm pessimistic about "fighting with conveyer". I know, not the bravest path, but just not ready to contact with bureaucrats again. Thats why for myself I'm following path to making games for education -- this way I don't "fight" directly, but I hope this way we are "forging weapon" for bravest :-) P.S.: In MOBA games, I'm playing usually Support role

Hi, I'm Valentin Briukhanov, Lead Game Developer/Designer at CodeCombat. I've been making educational coding games for the last 10 years. Jack-of-all-trades in game development pipeline, full-stack software engineer, and educational games expert. Ah, forgot -- video gamer with 35+ years experience ;-) I had the privilege of being a guest on the Proffesor game podcast, and being interviewed was, in my opinion, one of the best experiences of participating in a podcast. My goal is to help educational games thrive and share my expertise in this area. I believe that all games are educational, and we can improve education through them.