Category Archives: design

Thinking About Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fant­astic talk on the nature of cre­at­ive genius. In a room full of sci­ent­ists, this talk on being pos­sessed by a cre­at­ive muse, a spirit of genius, raised a stand­ing ova­tion. This utterly enthralling talk is an …

Fri February 13, 2009 – 22:57 | By seb | Posted in design, ideas, tubed, writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Game Ideas: Duality

Basic premise:
Players in a per­sist­ent vir­tual world inhabit two states — two par­al­lel lives.
When not act­ive in the world, play­ers take on the role of NPCs, their bod­ies under the con­trol of basic AI routines that go about daily life in any of the towns and vil­lages that scat­ter the world. The ful­fil the roles of …

Wed May 9, 2007 – 22:23 | By | Posted in design, games, ideas | Comments Off