Varicella (video game) despicable antagonists (just as variola is more virulent than varicella), thus making players willing to go along with his schemes. The international situation in the game is described in passing: Piedmont is part of a loose confederation of kingdoms that make up a Carolingian League and is engaged in a war against the Republic of Venice. It won four XYZZY Awards in 1999 including the XYZZY Award for Best Game, and was nominated for another four. The game was discussed academically by Nick Montfort and Stuart Moulthrop in their 2003 paper "Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading
Technical Aesthetics Soviet counterparts. It also rehabilitated the memory of movements such as Russian constructivism, which had been condemned by Stalin in favour of Socialist realism, even if they set the foundations of Russian design in the early 1920s. According to art historian Alexandra Chiriac, the term "technical aesthetics" was invented in Russia in the 1960s to speak about the field of design, which wasn't really developed in the country at the time, and which was promoted through the VNIITE research institute and the Technical Aesthetics magazine. Technical Aesthetics Technical Aesthetics (Техническая эстетика in Russian) was a monthly magazine produced in the