paint is a physics engine
Two of the best creation systems ever shipped are Garry’s Mod’s Wiremod and Media Molecule’s Dreams.
from lambdamoo to voyager
Companion to the changelog is the leaderboard, which argues for what to build. This one is about the thirty-five years of people who already tried. Pavel Curtis …
the multi-organization problem
Ten years of short posts were circling one object: a person who belongs to many organizations at once, with tools that assume one and methods that assume a task. Here is the theory in one place, what three fields and forty years of software actually know about it, whether anyone has solved it, and what a solution needs.
also: the room that forgot what it was for · eleven minutes and four seconds · a root to stand on
three games to sell one
Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.” Part one builds the vocabulary; part two runs it against the remake business. This one spends all …
also: the unremade · the dimension is the genre · the strong start on sunday
run the full test suite
Published as an experiment. A research program ran on this question for two weeks and then got told to stop and hand over what it had. This is the article …
also: Where the Sandbox Ends · the sandbox and the wall · the right to pull the plug
The Convergence Tax
When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.
also: The Gigawatt Problem
