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Bitsy is the small video game engine with a big community

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She did so using a piece of free open-source software called Bitsy which, since its release five years ago, has become one of the easiest ways to start making video games. Richard explains over Zoom that it’s a response to grief. A friend passed away in 2019; they loved sci-fi, so a year later Richard made a game set on a spaceship.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. One of her passions is exploring realistic visions for a sustainable environment, economy, and society.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

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Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between. And the thing that we were really excited about was that ticketing system, and turning it into a ticketing system that everyone could use.