Make games copyable. Some cracker groups where in the tradition of information freedom, others learned from cracking software creating software, others had fun, others were in a sport ‘who is first’ and of course also others gained money.
Why switzerland? and not us? The rumor is: There was no law in switzerland against cracking.
Swiss Game Design History
Cracking
Swiss Games
GameDevs
Tools & DevTools (Multimedia)
Companies
There is a serie of article about this time
www.gamelab.ch/?p=7608
ANFÄNGE DES SCHWEIZER GAME DESIGNS – TEIL I: Nerds, Freaks und ihre Communities
ANFÄNGE DES SCHWEIZER GAME DESIGNS – TEIL II: Home Computer – Die 8-Bit Welle
Atari/Amiga-Cracker und Demoscene (III)
The GamelabZHdK organised at gameZfestival 2013+ several Talks and exhibitions to SGD
gamelab project
gameZfestival 2013
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AS PDF
gamezfestival.ch 2014
Press
Vom Schweizer Hacker zum Gamedesigner
International Gamedesign