Wil Wright GamesBeat Presentation 2012
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GamesBeat 2012
The Player IS the Game
-Will Wright
Senet3500BC
Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
Platforms
Platforms
Technology Culture Psychology
Technology Culture Psychology
Technology Culture Psychology
Media(movie)
Medium
Breeding stock
I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention when I tell you that it is my firm belief…
…that one day there will be a telephone in every major town in America.
-Alexander Graham Bell
4.8 Billion - 1.3 B landlines / 3.5 B cell subscriptions
Turing
Enigma
Entertainment
Specific Problem Solving
Entertainment
Artistic Expression
Reality
Age
Artificial Experiences(Play/Story) Real Experiences
Which one is Admiral Ackbar?
Which one is Admiral Nimitz?
Not Real Real
Ackbar
Nimitz
Real World (atoms)
10
20
30
40
50
60
Investment(by age) Virtual World (bits)
Immersive Games
Virtual Reality Immersive
Data Communication Processing
Personal State
Metrics
1Kb 100Kb 1Mb
100Mb 10Gb ?Tb
Personal Data
Data Generated in a Lifetime
15001600
17001800
19002000
Half-Life of that Data100%
50%
? yrs.
25%
? yrs. ? yrs.
Digital wake
Awash in Data
20 Terabytes
1 Terabyte
Real design target
evolutionSocial Interactions
evolution
Good Samaritan Psychopath
Manic Depressive
possibilities
SocialMaterial
Success
Gameplay Landscape (Sims)
Start
Modeling
Thinking - Intelligence
Models – build – test - replace
experience
toyexperiences
others
Play
experience
toyexperiences
Play
Story
Educational Technologies
Perception
sight
touch
sound
smell
taste
10,000,000
Bandwidth (bps)
1,000,000
100,000
100,000
1000
50 bps
consciousness
Conscious Intelligence
Pre-conscious Intelligence(Filtering function)
BookmarksSymbolsSigns
Synthetic Awareness
Story
PlayVisual
Systemic
Tactile / Immersive
Toy-like / Systemic
Historical / Regional
Dramatic / Cultural
Abstractions
Augmented Reality Blended Reality
Synthetic Senses
Browsing the World / Awash in Data
Replacing my instincts
If you liked this…
you might also enjoy this…
Sometimes narrow…
Smart Dust
Situational Awareness
My state
World state
system
possibilities
KnownOpportunities
UnknownOpportunities
Future??
1700 1800 1900 2000 2100
The Future is becoming less predictable
Relevant
Social
IntertwinedPersonal
Accessible
End
Zudov Rozhdestvensy Soyuz 23
Oct. 1976
Almaz
Lake Tengiz
Happy Ending…
When leaving a Russian space battle station,Beware of frozen lakes in Kazakhstan.
Moral:
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