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Colony Collapse - Real Life
Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no ... See more
Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
One of the reasons I love games like this is that, unlike Chess, this is a wicked problem . What’s the best way for an agent to extract information from a noisy environment? We make sense of the world through stories of cause and effect, but, on close examination these stories are far less simple than they appear. In The Book of Why, computer scien... See more
Frank Lantz • Playing Balatro
Imagine creating infinite games as an act of agency. And imagine how the art of creating infinite games might open a way to an even greater art: the art of choosing better futures, thus expressively steering the medium of spacetime and sculpting our agency in it.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
Maybe I had it all wrong all those years ago. I had imagined Animal Crossing to be a game about the world, one that offered ingenious, if abstract, life lessons. But the players enjoying it in quarantine celebrate it for escapism, which any form of entertainment might provide. Neither interpretation seems quite right. Even though it can function as
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