Johnicholas

You might like a talk "Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA

Should local and/or national governments subsidize resilience projects, for example, people working continuously with heirloom domesticated plants and animals, or 'library in the sky' satellites?

Why do you charge so little for your games?

In your book, you didn't discuss much mathematics (ordinary differential equations? design of experiments?) nor information about social structures (double-entry bookkeeping? joint-stock corporation?).

Was that because you think those ideas would be difficult to distill and relatively easy to rediscover? Or some more prosaic reason like "I only have so much time to research and write" or "I want to tell an entertaining story"?

Have you played any of the not-by-Zachtronics Zach-likes? Manufactoria and Silicon Zeroes by PleasingFungus, Refraction (borderline) or Nanocrafter by Center for Game Science, Runestone Wisp (borderline)?