Emissary's Guide To Worlding

A World is an artificial living thing, but a living thing nonetheless. It is ongoing, absorbs change, and attracts players to help perpetuate it.

A margin that might allow us to see overwhelming chaos as overwhelming interestingness.

Where the Director pursues an idealistic vision of humans uncovering meaning from an exploration of their problems, the Cartoonist says meaning is easy: we’re already at home in the world of our own emotions. Seeking Home and Steering By Gut, the Cartoonist makes Flag Art that encourages us to feel more of what we feel, filter that which affirms th

People don’t just want the spark of a World, they expect to discover a World fully formed, inhabit its complexities, believe in its potentiality, and continue to generate meaning from it.

WHAT IS YOUR WORLD ABOUT? The simple answer: everything that interests you AND that you could imagine persuading a stranger to become interested in too. By stranger, I mean an archetypal person who exists outside your immediate social reality, someone you must relate to on a more shared fundamental level. The stranger could be the entire human race

The mind craves a stabilized context to know what is valuable. That is how we are wired. One way to secure a context is to develop a World and live within

To sustain thinking and acting in service of a World, the Emissary requires a deep reward: the reward of creating something far stranger than just a little game, but a living sentient World that can be at home in the unknowns of Reality. A World that can house other people, possess them with its spirit, and let them levitate a bit higher in life. T

There are periods where the balance between the Human Condition and Reality are well matched. We feel at home in these periods. But like any self respecting infinite game of infinite games, Reality finds unpredictable ways to up the ante, puncturing the boundaries of our homey Worlds and encroaching on us with its weirdness, with its overwhelming d

We must dive into the artistry of the Cartoonist to create the characters, names, words, symbols and signals that keep a World sticky in the minds of its inhabitants and compress the enormity of a World into candy for our limbic system.