{ "version": "https:\/\/jsonfeed.org\/version\/1.1", "title": "Games", "_rss_description": "Home page · Travel · На русском", "_rss_language": "en", "_itunes_email": "", "_itunes_categories_xml": "", "_itunes_image": "", "_itunes_explicit": "", "home_page_url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/tags\/games\/", "feed_url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/tags\/games\/json\/", "icon": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896", "authors": [ { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1492", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/journey-into-color\/", "title": "The Journey into Color", "content_html": "

The Giracolore<\/i> is a spin-art machine pertaining to the new popular tradition of Italian toys:<\/p>\n

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Raffaele Cesano, the Giracolore’s creator, asked me to make a book with its history and practical uses.<\/p>\n

“The Journey into Color” (Il viaggio nel colore<\/i>) is now the first book I have fully designed, and perhaps even my biggest design work yet. Its copies now come with every device put on sale.<\/p>\n

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The client<\/h2>\n

Raffaele is a schoolteacher-turned-toymaker. He’s especially good at crafting traditional toys and games, like spinning tops, smol carousels, and wooden acrobats. He is fascinated with color in motion.<\/p>\n

Process<\/h2>\n

Raffaele first gave me a bunch of material: pictures, informational texts, and stories. Some things would be repeated across four different texts, but each one would have something useful of its own. I read them all and then wove them into a fluent narrative. Every now and then, I would meet Raffaele to refine the text together. I also took some disc pics myself.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot about book design while working on this. For example:<\/p>\n

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  • The placement of punctuation and line breaks affects legibility. A line break at the wrong syllable can make a word appear to be a different one.<\/li>\n
  • Consistency in punctuation colors and weights is a science of its own!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Outcome<\/h2>\n

    I chose a 13×18 cm format for the book so it would fit perfectly into the Giracolore’s 13.5×19 cm box. Nothing is arbitrary here: the disc on the cover is the size of a real one. I made sure each spread had at least some color.<\/p>\n

    The imprint page and its adjacent table of contents are stunning: the gradient title, the rare NB ligature, the Italian cockade (which looks like a Giracolore disc!), the frame…<\/p>\n

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    The book begins with a short introduction to the Giracolore and proceeds with spin-art’s history. Notice the alignment of the words “bellezza” on the left page:<\/p>\n

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    The book then delves into color psychology:<\/p>\n

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    And culminates with stories metaphorically illustrated with the Giracolore. Here’s one of them, The Little Blonde Girl<\/i>, with the parallelism principle at work:<\/p>\n

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    Some pages encourage to make one’s own disc and glue it in:<\/p>\n

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    The book ends with an invitation to take a look at Raffaele’s other projects and to contact him:<\/p>\n

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    The book is set in three styles of Apfel Grotesk<\/i>: Regular, Fett, and Brukt (for the “stick your disc here” label).<\/p>\n

    Conclusion<\/h2>\n

    The book is the best introduction to the Giracolore, vividly showing the device’s value for children, teachers, artists, storytellers, and therapists.<\/p>\n

    Good design is never boring.<\/p>\n

    The client’s review<\/h2>\n
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    Robert has visually arranged The Journey into Color<\/i> with great success and has helped me introduce it to the public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    Robert has various qualities: his youthful energy gave me confidence to express what I felt. I had fun letting him do his thing, letting him express and interpret my ideas. Everyone has the right to play the game they enjoy the most.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    The result is what I wanted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    I initially hesitated to pay in advance, but during the course of the work, I saw Robert’s reliability firsthand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Enjoy the colors!<\/p>\n", "summary": "I designed a book about the spin-art machine Giracolore", "date_published": "2025-04-06T22:36:17+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-04-29T09:45:46+02:00", "tags": [ "art", "books", "design", "games", "hues", "illustrations", "national symbols", "packaging", "things", "typography", "undertakings" ], "image": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-device.png", "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:36:17 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "1492", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [ "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-device.png", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-book.jpeg", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-1.png.jpg", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-origini.png.jpg", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-luscher.png", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-bambina.png.jpg", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-tua-storia.png", "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/giracolore-40.png.jpg" ] } }, { "id": "787", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/wordle-580\/", "title": "Wordle 580 2\/6", "content_html": "

    ⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨
    \n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<\/p>\n", "summary": "⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨", "date_published": "2023-01-20T11:39:01+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-20T11:38:53+02:00", "tags": [ "games", "Wordle" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:39:01 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "787", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "772", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/luck\/", "title": "Luck", "content_html": "

    Luck does not exist. Quoting Ron Swanson, luck is a concept invented by the weak to explain their failures.<\/p>\n

    There is, however, a cause for every effect, and an effect for every cause.<\/p>\n

    What is referred to as beginner’s luck<\/i> is an invitation to continue the journey. I won my first-ever game of Go despite playing against a world champion doing his best.<\/p>\n

    The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at maths, and even more so on a supposedly lucky day: it is probabilistically unlikely to have multiple yuge unrelated events happen in a day. Althô I do suppose that one’s spiritual energy field reaching a certain frequency can make it more probable. Trust your gut.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Luck does not exist", "date_published": "2023-01-16T23:14:01+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-01-17T12:54:46+02:00", "tags": [ "games", "growth", "life", "maths", "spirituality" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:14:01 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "772", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "776", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/playing-wordle\/", "title": "Playing Wordle", "content_html": "

    I started playing Wordle a week ago. Fun game!<\/p>\n

    Wordle 561 3\/6<\/h2>\n

    ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
    \n⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
    \n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<\/p>\n", "summary": "I started playing Wordle a week ago. Fun game!", "date_published": "2023-01-01T22:29:30+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-04T17:51:33+02:00", "tags": [ "games", "tongue", "Wordle" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 01 Jan 2023 22:29:30 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "776", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "316", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/esports\/", "title": "E-sports", "content_html": "

    Gaming, something that many believe to be a waste of time, is being rebranded as e-sports, something that sounds prestigious.<\/p>\n

    This rebranding, along with the creation of high-quality shooter games, is what it takes to have young people (unknowingly) commit to the future of warcraft.<\/p>\n

    Future wars, after all, will be fought remotely to avoid casualties. Watch closely: today’s Fortnite champions will be tomorrow’s robot-commanding generals. Ernest Cline’s novel Armada was a prophecy.<\/p>\n", "summary": "The gaming → esports rebranding, along with the creation of high-quality shooter games, is what it takes to have young people (unknowingly) commit to the future of warcraft", "date_published": "2021-01-04T15:42:26+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-04-02T10:56:45+02:00", "tags": [ "games", "the future", "wars" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:42:26 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "316", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "251", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/randomness\/", "title": "Randomness in games", "content_html": "

    Games with an element of randomness are more fun to play than those without: the player who made a bad strategic mistake gets a chance to escape the spiral of loss.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Games with an element of randomness are more fun to play than those without: the player who made a bad strategic mistake gets a chance to escape the spiral of loss", "date_published": "2020-07-16T14:56:45+02:00", "date_modified": "2024-11-02T21:39:23+02:00", "tags": [ "games" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:56:45 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "251", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "224", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/game\/", "title": "My favorite strategy game", "content_html": "

    My favorite strategy game is one from real life: finding ways to get around restrictions.<\/p>\n", "summary": "My favorite strategy game is one from real life: finding ways to get around restrictions", "date_published": "2020-06-15T11:04:10+02:00", "date_modified": "2024-11-02T21:39:05+02:00", "tags": [ "games", "life", "me", "strategy" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:04:10 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "224", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": true, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } } ], "_e2_version": 4199, "_e2_ua_string": "Aegea 11.5 (v4199)" }