{"id":1338,"date":"2011-11-02T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2011-11-02T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T06:04:56","slug":"designing-to-reveal-the-nature-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/11\/designing-to-reveal-the-nature-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing to Reveal the Nature of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This talk was presented by Jonathan Blow and Marc ten Bosch at Indiecade on October 7, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGSeLSmOALU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Any system of interactivity can of course be explored: If X happens, what are the consequences? What are all the ways in which pattern Y expresses itself, and to what do those expressions lead? By inspecting the structure of a system in this way, we can find the core ideas of the system, and see how those ideas illustrate fundamental truths of our universe. We present a game design aesthetic that values looking for systems that express these truths in the cleanest possible way. We explain how this is different from more-traditional combinatoric design techniques; we show examples from our games and describe a method for applying the aesthetic in general.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiecade.com\/index.php\/2011\/Conference_videos\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.indiecade.com\/index.php\/2011\/Conference_videos\/', 'Here\\'s a link to the Indiecade page, on which there\\'s also a presentation by Richard LeMarchand, and more to come.']);\" >Here's a link to the Indiecade page, on which there's also a presentation by Richard LeMarchand, and more to come.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks very much to <a href=\"http:\/\/portfolio.idaimages.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/portfolio.idaimages.com\/', 'Ida C. Benedetto']);\" >Ida C. Benedetto<\/a> for recording the talk!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This talk was presented by Jonathan Blow and Marc ten Bosch at Indiecade on October 7, 2011. Any system of interactivity can of course be explored: If X happens, what are the consequences? What are all the ways in which pattern Y expresses itself, and to what do those expressions \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/11\/designing-to-reveal-the-nature-of-the-universe\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}