Bennett Foddy says research can be creative, like game design.Credit: Gabriel Cuzzillo 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.