A writer and game developer who makes experimental games aimed at creating life with math, design, and computation.
Joined May 2011
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Sheldon Pacotti, Writer, Game Developer, & Family Man
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A new review of a very old short story collection of mine.
"Pacotti is one of the great sci-fi authors of our era, and when the history of fin de millénaire literature is written—if it is written—it will be impossible not to include his name in it."
ruinedchapel.com/2026/07/31/…
Still on a futurism kick… just launched a weekly podcast that explores when we’ll have things like domestic robots, O’Neill Cylinders, immortality, etc.
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Now I can get back to the novel I was writing. After which I will return to the space combat game.
Links to the Friday Farsight podcast:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4k2uTp…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
RSS: anchor.fm/s/108109664/podcas…
And now . . . a website for predicting the future. Meant to be amusing as an encyclopedia of predictions but also hopefully useful to futurists and science fiction writers.
Video Introduction: youtu.be/NFgHapi5NfM
The site: strategicfarsight.com
Still working on a space shooter, but in the meantime here's a novelette to help pass the time.
It’s about a Chinese-American journalist trying to make it in the land of free speech and in the land of… other things.
Part 1: failbetter.com/content/we-be…
Part 2 to follow on the 28th.
Finally circling back to the space game after a detour writing fiction. The simulations of plasma and electricity are now fully integrated. Many rough edges and remaining problems, but the core concept is starting to work.
youtu.be/x26BSWXLNXU
A new review of a very old book of mine.
"a metaphysical magnum opus for our time"
ruinedchapel.com/2023/09/08/…
Closer to an "electric storm" after adding lightning bolts (um, line segments w/ colliders) to the MPM sim. Still working with jelly cubes for now, but less abstract is the opening showing a few gameplay ideas like "cinematic flight."
Got the MPM sim interacting with game objects. It's still jelly, but imagine an electric storm. Watch for the asteroids passing through it.
Just got the "material point method" working in outer space. Should be good for building... something?
Have bad neighbors? Ever dream of sabotaging their wall of bamboo or silly flower beds? Then you might like this #boardgame about suburban turf wars from a colleague of mine. Looks like it’s funded and on its way into the world. turfwar.info/ks. @GadaboutGames.
For you intellectual gamers: a hyper-realistic emulation of the global conspiracies of the 2040s... via an experience like surfing the web: "Neurocracy, a sci-fi hypertext story." Full disclosure: I am in a cameo as an AI researcher. @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/pla…
Not sure if anyone will see a reply to such an old post, but Episode 1 of this game/hypertext from Joannes Truyens is now available here: omnipedia.app/. Enjoy!
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And happy 20th birthday to @DeusEx 🎉🎂
One of my favourite games from all time!!!
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Just been #GestaltRealtimeReviewing #ZeroDay by #SheldonJPacotti in #Interzone 278 @ttapress
A core work prophesying #TrumpShutdown inter alia?
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Some science fiction about behavior-modification medicine, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, hacking, and Alabama. One of my more literary/experimental sci-fi stories...
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I know I’ve let this Twitter account die, but here’s a quick note that my story “Zero Day” appears in the latest Interzone. A young cyber operator tries to have a night out on the town during the outbreak of a cyber war during the 2030s. Enjoy!
amazon.com/Interzone-278-Nov…
A new series about game writers' fiction... featuring a review of my own novel: "... a beautiful mess." :-)
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