The swiss gamedesign was influenced and even founded by the cracker scene coming from the C64 to Amiga and the other tree was the Atari ST. Around 25 own Games and Ports were created and published from 1985-1997. There was even an own publisher Linel.
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