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Autonomy & Automation — The New World

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You need to be world maxxing. You need to be automating your autonomy. Developing emergence. Creating emergencies. NPCs. AI. You need to be mocking those with the sight of what they might have known. You need to build a big bonfire, each player a hot coal. At the altar of autonomy, the crystal sword plunges towards a sacrifice, then—stops. Quivering, the dagger suspended millimeters above. Cut to black. It is you, waking up in your bed, you have been working on a game for two decades. It will be released tomorrow. There was no stone temple, dagger, or victim. The autonomous altar was inside of a dream, inside the dream of automation. Autonomy and automation. “[Playing a game is] the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles" -Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper BUT Children recognize early on that play is an opportunity for pure enjoyment, whereas games may involve considerable stress. -Bruno Bettelheim, March 1987 Issue of The Atlantic THEN "As a prefix, auto- not only means ‘sel

by Neilson Autonomy & Automation You need to be world maxxing. You need to be automating your autonomy. Developing emergence. Creating emergencies. NPCs. AI. You need to be mocking those with the sight of what they might have known. You need to build a big bonfire, each player a hot coal. At the altar of autonomy, the crystal sword plunges towards a sacrifice, then—stops. Quivering, the dagger suspended millimeters above. Cut to black. It is you, waking up in your bed, you have been working on a game for two decades . It will be released tomorrow. There was no stone temple, dagger, or victim.

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