during those heady procgen times there was so much talk about how soon the systems would write every story, an infinite well of content, crafted each time by the finest artisinal math. which is cool conceptually but idk. seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a video game.
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but it turns out the procedurally generated stuff is only ever as good as our hand-made elements and hand-tuned algorithms and filters and so forth, so it turns out we're going to be authors and curators anyway unless we're doing something very specific, sooooooo
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but the sort of Infinite Game Creation Cube idea also is great stuff to market your game as the pure eternally replayable game, and also I assume higher ups were like sweet we can cut some pesky staff if we can just automate all of this, etc
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anyway that whole thing seems to have subsided and i'm glad. it was boring and ultimately pointless.
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it bothered me a lot at the time but that was because i was new to this and sensitive and paid attention to that stuff in a way that i can't imagine doing now. to end this constructively: hey new game designers, make better choices than i did about what to care about.
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Adding to this next day- a lot of it I think was also people still very googly eyed about immersive sims and open world sandboxes and the idea that enough interacting systems and player agency would create the True Game Stories that the player experienced organically.
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Replying to @bombsfall
Only Hideo Kojima can create the perfect game, one which meshes “deep cinematic story about clashing geopolitical forces across generations as filtered through one broken man” with “lmao did you see what happened when i launched that dude into that helicopter?!”
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @bombsfall
damn, this is a troublingly perfect distillation of a v common viewpoint
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Replying to @zusty @bombsfall
troublingly perfect is my favorite kind of perfect
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @bombsfall
Caro it's almost like you understand things really well and precisely????? what the fuck honestly
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