How Games can Help Imagination
Many parents worry about the amount of games their children play as they grow older. They think that they should be outside getting exercise or studying more.
Many parents worry about the amount of games their children play as they grow older. They think that they should be outside getting exercise or studying more.
There
are hundreds, if not thousands, of hobbyists and non-programmers who make digital games outside of the games industry's model. There
are lots
of tools that
allow people to make and
distribute games without ever having written
a line of code and without
having to pass through publishers' gates. In years to
come, there will be a lot
more tools.
We have a real, innate desire to see our dreams come to life. Video games can help us understand our potential to become the gods and myths of our imagination.
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Evolution, life, mind, and the technium are infinite games.
Their game is to keep the game going. To keep all participants playing as long
as possible. They do that, as all infinite games do, by playing around with the
rules of play. The evolution of evolution is just that kind of play.
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our communications technology, the new LHC particle accelerator could
also potentially change our reality into a bizarre parallel universe.
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