Tilting at windmills for a better tomorrow.
So it finally happened. Wanton destruction on an unprecedented scale. Entire civilizations wiped out with the flick of a wrist. Totally innocent sentient beings running for their lives, with no hope of cover from the firepower of a much more advanced species. Until tonight, Spore had been a beautiful educational game Miles and I played …
I’ve written a few times over the years about Spore, the new life-cycle simulation game by Will Wright (creator of The Sims), with spontaneous/generative music by Brian Eno. The game’s release is now just a couple of months away, and Maxis have released the Spore Creature Creator in advance, so users can get started creating a library …
Will Wright Keynote Speech Amazing, amazing keynote. Half an hour exploring concepts of linear and interactive narrative, followed by half hour demo of evolutionary / generative computer game Spore. Technorati Tags: sxsw2007
Last August listened to a great conversation between Sims designer Will Wright and composer Brian Eno, after which Eno announced he’d be creating a generative music soundtrack for Wright’s new game Spore. Six month later, apparently, the online gaming community is reporting the coupling as news. Hooked on Spore quotes Birdhouse as the source – …
Follow-up to Eno, Wright, Generative Systems: Eno later described the session as “Two strangers becoming friends in front of 900 people.” Two guys in completely different fields working on exactly the same thing — building generative systems from cellular automata. Numberless: [Each of them] use the idea of cellular automata as a basis for their …
Posted back in 2002 about the Long Now Foundation – created by Stewart Brand to think about the very distant future of humanity. Their flagship project is the construction of a clock to last 10,000 years, which will chime once per century. The foundation recently hosted a conversation between musician Brian Eno and game designer …
On our occasional trips to the local Asian supermarket, I always enjoy discovering some new, hard-to-believe-it’s-real foodstuff to bring home. Last week I found Greenmax brand “Pai Ku Grain Powder,” which I thought would be a sort of tea, but is actually a sort of soupy, slightly chalky energy drink. The list of ingredients were …