Author of Building SimCity (https://xitter.cf/t.co/bT4uSkp6eY); Made @EarthPrimer, designed Spore Creature Creator; PhD from @UCSC.
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By "barnyard understanding" I think Vannevar Bush meant hands-on experience. The gritty hands-on know-how of a tinkerer and builder as opposed to theoretical knowledge. He prized and respected both.
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A little less than a year ago, I began working on something I felt was truly unique.
Today it launches🧵
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Our world is defined by emergent properties that can only be explored through simulation, yet the modern era hasn't integrated the deep philosophical challenges this poses: we need multiple approaches; prediction is necessary but insufficient; no one story is enough...
(4/n)
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17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here
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Thanks, Thomas! @tophtucker hosted a conversation at Observable with me around when the book came out. Had a blast.
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for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
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@cgingold A friend of mine lived next door to Will Wright, so I went to visit. On the left is Yoneda Takashi, a legend in the Japanese gaming world, next to him is digital artist Mimura Chie, and on the far right is me. The photographer of the three of us and our neighbor is Ikeda Tomoya, who drew the flying toaster, and they are all members of the Enzan-Hoshigumi team, which has been developing Macintosh apps in Japan since 1985.
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Live on the free feed: @ubersaurus and author @cgingold get into the nitty gritty of SimCity
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Tomorrow: BUILDING SIMCITY chat with Will Wright!
Some cellular automata for you: Langton Loops.
📢 THIS FRIDAY: @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET.
🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romc…
Gotta find it! @stewartbrand didn't remember it, but I did find convincing documentation corroborating the basics of Doreen Gehry Nelson's recollection of it.
Had fun talking with @arbesman about Maxis, SimCity, and the history of computing on this podcast!
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How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
You should try uploading a video clip directly into Twitter so people just see it playing. It's mesmerizing stuff. Like xitter.cf/shr_id/status/16026887…
Life Universe oimo.io/works/life
Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from.
無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev