Procrastination, productivity and inspiration: how research is like designing video games

Bennett Foddy says research can be creative, like game design. Credit: Gabriel Cuzzillo About the interviewer I am a vaccine-immunology researcher and, since childhood, an enthusiastic (but mostly talentless) amateur gamer. I have an enduring love for the text-based adventure games I played in the 1980s, as well as for classics from the 1990s and early 2000s, such as Doom , Half Life and Grand Theft Auto III . …