It’s Not Good for a Game Dev To Be Alone
Just as isolation was not good for the first human, it remains harmful for us today.
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Game Design Gives Perspective
Games allow us to see the bigger picture by abstracting out the elements at play, modeling their dynamics, and providing a ten thousand-foot view. They give us distance and emotional separation to see with new eyes things that are too close to us to perceive.
Enjoying Order
It feels good to organize and create order, whether in the real world or a game world. It seems woven into our DNA, but why do we enjoy it, and where does this desire come from?
Goals and Infinite Runners
Infinite runners are the best metaphor for my thinking on goals at the moment. I have trouble with goals because of the tension between the finite and the infinite, the concrete and the ephemeral.
Uncertainty in Games and Creation
As I read the opening chapter of Greg Costikyan’s book, Uncertainty In Games, three questions came to mind. 1. Do activities like games require uncertainty? 2. Is uncertainty a consequence of The Fall? 3. What role does uncertainty play in creation?
A Shared Language
Much like designing and building a skyscraper, making games requires an incredible amount of communication to ensure everyone is building the same thing.
Connecting Minecraft With Christ
Whether consciously or intuitively, Notch designed a low-fi sandbox that resonates with God’s creation in ways that helped catapult it to the best-selling game of all time.
Better than You Found It
What would your project look like if you took on the posture of a steward?
The Power of a Name
As a programmer, I spend a lot of time thinking about names—way more time than the average person. Names are powerful, and yet in our modern, western world, we forget that sometimes.