⚡ Worldbuilding on the Digital Frontier - Reboot
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How crypto and sci-fi inspire next-generation game design
I've read the book Ender's Game at least ten times in the last ten years. There are so many wonderful things about the series, but what I really latched on to—and predated the work I'm currently doing—was the part where Ender's siblings wrote articles on web forums with fake names. I was and am still obsessed with the idea that relatively powerless figures can leverage online information ecosystems to make shit happen on a geopolitical scale. I think a lot of technologists have something similar to my Ender's Game moment. They come across a creative work—a book, a video game, a movie—that…
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