Edit - blog post 2 up BTW.
Wow! Heavy stuff. So interesting to learn about how the final, anticipated fun of playing a game is worked out from the very beginning, especially considering that building that set of highly complex ideas, reminds me of reverse scaping of a sculpture -- like michelangelo said the sculpture is already to be imagined inside the block as a whole; you, Koshling do the same thing but instead of scaping, every little piece of code you
add to the structure makes the cold formula become more human in its whole - in the beginning was the word?
In 'future civ's case it's
IsAdjacent ((A.x - B.x)2 + (A.y - B.y)2) <= 2.
I see your groundbreaking work with the respect I have for great Artists of all times;
in your case the "making" of stunning art can even be watched as it's done.
Ingredients are
a blog (visible, yet unfinished process, representing life itself),
raw ideas (in this case abstract formulas that, like geometrical patterns in nature evolve and reveal a fascinating, mystical sense of beauty, especially in "forgetting" about them during the dreamworld kinda dive into the finished gameplay -- the idea [of fun] as a promise [of redemption] ),
a subtle sense of politics (independence from current commercial chains).
So what is art in the 21th century, other than interdisciplinary, new-horizons-defining scientific and intrueging idealism? Very much can be found in your case, Koshling! Philosophy, is what comes to my mind at first: the sheer width of anticipating freedom
what should the game I create be like, what do I like , why do I like it, where do I want to go to like some more, what possibilities for the future of the projects should I consider to implement even before beginning etc pp. ,
the degree of abstraction to convert the ideas towards applied computer science, to me is like a work of Hercules, a fine, enduring craftmanship is needed, its like painting the sixtine chapel, only that we have it with a huge zooming scale on our screens once its finished. Yes, Koshangelo is also inventing new techniques to paint!
Next part of that state of 21th century art is a solid yet enthusiastic personality with livid social interaction, strong morale and under stable, autochthonous development.
Too bad, the public eye still defines art as something that has to be in a museum to count in the highest ranks, no, it shouldn't anymore, art is something that is alive, a pure essence of the brain evading wad of smoky mist that condenses in giving hope, making people think and discuss about things that move them, that pushes us, as humanity forward to the unknown - with the great promise of something good.