5 games that make you think like a programmer March 1, 2021 | By DigiPen Institute of Technology March 1, 2021 | By DigiPen Institute of Technology Matthew Picioccio, a senior lecturer at DigiPen Institute of Technology, has been playing and developing games since he was just a little kid. “I made little role-playing and adventure games written in assembly and BASIC on my Apple II,” Picioccio says of his earliest creations. Fittingly, after earning his computer science degree in 2001, Picioccio would start off his career as a programmer on two of the biggest role-playing adventure games ever made at the time — Bethesda Game Studios’ classics The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and