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It is no longer the new year, just Tuesday. Stores and airports and newscasters still mention the holidays, as they fill shelves with Valentine's tchotchkes, as security lines get shorter, as stories turn to politics and commute times. The shine has worn off. …
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Terence Eden writes on problem solving: Reductive Thinking and the Unfairness of Spotify Payments How do you solve a complex problem? Render it to the simplest version, the physicist and their spherical objects, and solve their problems, then iterate with the next more difficult version. How many people fit on a subway car? Fill the car with imaginary 50kg spheres, then capsules, then vary the mass of the capsules to get a more realistic number. …
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They are always there, on the horizon, looming, over the horizon. …
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I set some goals for the new year - maybe not resolutions. That feels a political word — the parliament of the self in accord — and these goals are fragmented, partial. I broke them into three categories: ontologies of self, archetypes, shadow-throwers in the cave.…
Inventories, or a stash of items, exist in many game designs. It may be items that a character carries, or a shop’s items available to buy. How to implement items, item pickup, and inventory in a game is a complicated process - here’s some things I’m thinking through.…