Michael Shalyt

A quantum physicist by education, cyber security expert by trade and an avid game designer and gamer by choice - Michael has a broad spectrum of interests. A researcher at heart, he loves understanding and modeling systems, whether natural or man made, identifying patterns and loopholes.

Games played an important role in Michael's life: picking up his first game at the age of 5, he learned what ROM means at the age of 6 - because King's Bounty required more than his PC had - and wrote his first program at the age of 8 - whose purpose was to automatically start any game inserted into the floppy disk drive.

Nowadays Michael strives to combine his hard technical and scientific skills with a "soft" understanding of people, games and "what's fun" - both in his game design analysis and indie projects.

For more about Michael visit shalyt.com or geek out with him on some mathematical analysis of games, people and life at lifeinagraph.shalyt.com.