World Building
what does it take to build worlds?
World Building
What is a World?
We could say a World is something like a gated garden. A World has borders. A World has laws. A World has values. A World has dysfunction. A World can grow up. A World has members who live in it. A World gives its members permission to act differently than outside of it. A World incentivizes its members to keep it alive, often with... See more
We could say a World is something like a gated garden. A World has borders. A World has laws. A World has values. A World has dysfunction. A World can grow up. A World has members who live in it. A World gives its members permission to act differently than outside of it. A World incentivizes its members to keep it alive, often with... See more
Ian Cheng • Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
As someone who has decades of experience on the web, I hate to compare myself to the tortoise, but hey, if it fits, it fits. Let’s be more like that tortoise: diligent, direct, and purposeful. The web needs pockets of slowness and thoughtfulness as its reach and power continues to increase. What we depend upon must be properly built and... See more
Frank Chimero • Everything Easy is Hard Again
Initial stages of a new system it thing would require prioritisation, speed and efficacy in operation for it to survive. As it slowly engulfs the old guard, there is a need for multiple pockets and spaces to exist, a spectrum as is natural in all things.
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that, there is no where
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
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World building Archives – iA
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I am proposing that it can be helpful to think of Ideas as occupying a space that exists alongside the purely physical world with which we’re all familiar, and that further it is useful to think of this parallel emergent world as extremely real and not at all a metaphor .
eigenrobot • the map is of the territory
Paracosm
A paracosm is an imaginary world. A world we create beside the real world. Thought generally to originate in childhood.
The artist is a discoverer, not an inventor.
Elan Ullendorff • Thinking outside "outside the box"
Roblox
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