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Geoff Engelstein
Personal blog · gametek.substack.comgamesscience
Geoff Engelstein writes GameTek, a personal blog at gametek.substack.com about games and science. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Geoff Engelstein's Substack posts on board games, including the publication of a Kurt Vonnegut lost board game and a hex-grid illustration of the Einstein tile's vertices.
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The Math and Science of Gaming.
What Hacker News says?
All credit for this go to Geoff and his efforts to bring this to life. He is a well-known game designer with dozens of published games and founder of the podcast Ludology (no longer an active host after 100s of episodes) that posits that Games are worthy of study . He is also a co-founder of the TTGDA ( https://www.ttgda.org/ ) that aims to be a guild like resource for designers. It is his connections that got this…
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on “Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published”Submitted And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut's GHQ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe points of the Einstein tile all fall on a hex grid - see the illustration here: https://gametek.substack.com/p/the-einstein-tile So in cartesian coordinates, there are √3 components that will always crop up. But there is always an integer number of √3's in each x and y coordinate, if that helps - every vertex can be written as (a + b√3, c + d√3) for integers a, b, c and d. Oh, and that goes for every vertex of e…
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on “What can you do with an Einstein?”