from icanhazcheezburger
A new blog from a fan of the forth-coming uber-simulation game by WIll Wright. I hope I have a machine that can run it!
““The term ‘narrative’ is often confused with the term ‘plot’, but they’re not the same thing. If I tell you that the king died, and then the queen died, that’s not narrative; that’s plot. But, if I tell you that the king died, and then the queen died of a broken heart, that’s narrative.”
“It sounds far out and a little sci-fi, but since I can instantly calculate my position on the globe in 30 seconds and find the nearest bank by talking in to a device I carry in my pocket, I’d say that a lot of sci-fi is already sci-fact.
I recently discovered OpenArena, a packaging of open-source content + the GPL’d code of Quake 3 (a classic of the FPS genre, IMHO). I’m loving it so damn much.