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06 January 2026
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Gameclass Audio I 01/06/2020
CURRENT CONTENT
My audioblog displaying my thoughts in the Will Wright Masterclass course on game design.
TRANSCRIPT OF CONTENT
Game Design Thoughts Day 1
When I chose this course, I was not interested in how to make a game, but I am interested in improving my methods for making a game.
In the introduction, Will Wright said a few things that were not educative to me, but as the purpose of this blog or audioblog is to take you along on this masterclass course, or perhaps inspire you to go along the game development process, I will state them.
First, the developer gives the player a toy and the player turn the toy into a game. That is an interesting point. Why? anyone who plays games knows that one person can find enjoyment in a game when another cannot. So, the way in which any player is able to see a toy as a game is vital. This is why some people who can play chess are terrible at street fighter. Each person has various blocks that manipulate what toys they can turn into a game, a thing of fun.
Second, being an ever growing multidisciplinarian is needed to develop games in modernity. This is nearly obvious today, when you look at the gaming landscape but financially is a stronger point than environmental. ... Anybody can make a game, anyone with cardboard and imagination. But, in modernity, getting possible buyers... I say possible cause the people who have money to possibly by exists and those that do not do not have money to possibly buy exists as well... possible buyers, to buy a toy that is not electronic, that does not have 3-d , is not as monolithic or tunnel visioned as it was in the past. I doubt a very popular game can arrive from a simple premise and be set in a fiscally profitable tone. I know it may seem rude in a talk meant to inspire to create, but I think if any children or elders are reading/listening to this series, I must convey that you can have an entailed, detailed, time consuming game development experience and not have a fiscally sellable game at the end.
Third, Balancing function with economics, function Wright defines as entertainment/performance/installation while economics is capitol/production, I advise you to keep that alignment in hand as I go on, i will relate to that alignment throughout this series.
Now, past those informative points, whether you knew them or not, Wright made some points clear that were thoughtful.
first, He wants the class goals to be, how to build worlds, and as he is a creator of Sims, I can comprehend that path. But some people do enjoy the zero-sum game. My advice to any is not to get caught up in making a zero sum or non-zero-sum game, I think you need to enjoy creating games at the moment.
second, and this is self-evident but interesting. I will use JavaScript to make the games but remember you can make these games on sheets of paper, the medium of the toy to become a game, does not have to be electronic. For those who wish to follow me, do not get caught up in electronics, the learning process does not require it.
Finally, to the game made at the first class. Well, I thought to the game I will like to make at the end of this learning process and I said to myself, what can I take from that idea and focus on not having a zero-sum game. I achieved an idea quickly but realized I needed to streamline. To be honest, the streamlining took days, about three and that streamlining process I want to cut down to hours. When the next class finish, I do not want to have days to figure out the game. I chose a game you can see in the eBook you may be hearing this from, or if you are in the audiobook, the eBook in question is linked in the audiobook description. The game is a simple strategy game implying a god role, where you play both sides and the goal of the game is to have as high a count as possible. Somewhat like playing chess with yourself, but the goal not to defeat yourself but literally keep your battling world alive. Tell me how may counts you reached.
The rules to the game are simple. You have to place pieces. You start with the PUser, and if valid, you then place a piece for the Nuser and on and on till you cannot any more. The pieces are horizontal or vertical. Each user cannot place a piece on a vertical or horizontal line occupied by the other user. It is even incomplete, but I will ask you to figure out how.
End of day 1
MY GAMEROOM
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/blog/63-bge-arcade/
OLD CONTENT- just for reference do not utilize
My audioblog displaying my thoughts in the Will Wright Masterclass course on game design. The ebook comparative work has the code for the game i designed with the simple premise of giving my example of a non zero sum game. I have a review to what was covered or at least what I engendered in the introduction. The transcript for those who can not hear is in the ebook. Use the U.R.L. below to get pertinent links.
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/263-masterclass-2020/
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06 January 2026
This event began 01/06/2025 and repeats every year forever
Poetic Critique of Luthien and Beren by jjwinters - Jan 6th 2025
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Poetic-Critique-of-Luthien-and-Beren-by-jjwinters-1143440896
IN AMENDMENT
the rare fantasy, based on 魔女の宅急便, phonetically Majo no Takkyūbin, in english 'Witch's Express Home Delivery written by Eiko Kadono. Kadono at the time of this rmnewsletter edition is ninety years old.
The review focuses on one thing, that is why I am a Kiki fan. The film's story is uncommonly balanced, not the good vs evil dichotomy, but the total human existence. Like a number of Studio Ghibli films: "Whisper of the Heart" or "The Wind Rises" for example, the action is minimal, and the Christian duopoly is nonexistent, and I recall my own youth, amongst black folk in this black place in a white city, the most.
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06 January 2026
This event began 01/06/2025 and repeats every year forever
The Cellist states something few state, London has no toll to get into the city so when they did congestion pricing that was the first toll into London. New York City is full of tolls.
And the comparisons to Singapore which is a wealthy city state, or stocklhom which is the only city in a low populace country full of natural resources, are dysfunctional to new York city which is the largest city in a country with over three hundred million people.
And Oren Barzilay admitted that EMS workers live in shelters, they are not on welfare, but they don't make enough to live outside the shelters.
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What are my points?
1) no two places in humanity are financially the same. Applying governmental policy to two different places will never yield the same result.
2) the true financial condition of cities isn't in mayor's speeches or investments in stadiums. It is in the quality of life to the lowest wage workers. Eric Adams suggest New York City is financially flying high, then if so why not pay the emergency medical service workers more? why not make congestion pricing void for them? You claim to have money earned but you don't use it , can only mean you are hoarding it. when governments do that, it means illegal money transactions in the bureaucracy.
Congestion pricing and the Broadway community
By Roberto Araujo New York City
PUBLISHED 2:18 PM ET Dec. 30, 2024
Broadway musician Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf plays the cello in the Broadway musical “The Great Gatsby."
She drives into Midtown Manhattan from her home in Hartsdale, New York.
“We lived in Inwood before we bought this house, and we spent, the idea was to be able to take the Metro-North, which we did up until the pandemic. We always took the train,” Dorman-Phaneuf said.
“But then in the pandemic, the trains home went away and they still haven’t come back. So even though I wish we could be taking the train, on a weekday, there were just, there’s a train at 10:30, and then there’s a train at 11:44. So if we get done at 10:35 at work, the next train is 11:44, and that means I’d get home at 12:40,” she said. "And that's just untenable, you know, to have to wait an hour for a train."
In a statement, the MTA said, “Schedules are based on current ridership data of more than 200,000 daily riders who use Metro-North. As Metro-North’s ridership continues to grow, the railroad is constantly monitoring ridership patterns and trends to see what future adjustments may be necessary.”
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community
official link
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage/2024/12/30/congestion-pricing-and-the-broadway-community?cid=share_clip
Drivers react to day one of congestion pricing
By Noorulain Khawaja Manhattan
PUBLISHED 2:14 PM ET Jan. 05, 2025
Some New Yorkers thoughts to Congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/drivers-react-to-day-one-of-congestion-pricing
The Port Authority tolls will increase alongside congestion pricing
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/01/05/port-authority-tolls-increase-alongside-start-of-congestion-pricing
Local EMS union encourages workers to request reassignment out of congestion relief zone
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
Heather Fordham
Jan 3, 2025, 10:30 PM
Updated 2 days ago
The local union that represents the city's EMS and paramedics is now encouraging their members assigned to stations in the congestion relief zone to request reassignments.
Local Union 2507 sent a notice to their members that included a reassignment request form.
The union represents 4,100 emergency medical technicians and paramedics that travel from all parts of the city — and even outside of the state, to be on the city's front lines.
Under congestion pricing, those who live outside of 60th Street in Manhattan will have to pay a toll beginning at $9 for cars during peak periods in order to get to stations located in downtown Manhattan.
Union president Oren Barzilay said Friday while they fought for exemptions and discounts at public hearings, ultimately, they were not included in the groups eligible.
"My men and woman, they live in their cars, they live in their families or friends' houses. They sleep on couches, they sleep at stations because they can't afford to go back and forth every day. This will more than likely be the nail in the coffin, they will likely resign, or demand to be transferred to another station," Barzilay said.
Barzilay did not have an exact number, but said some workers have already submitted reassignment forms and they expect the number to increase once the toll goes into effect on Jan. 5.
“Mark my words, it will likely have a large, negative impact on public safety that will soon enough lead to a rush by Albany and City Hall’s countless and well-paid government funded spin doctors to point the blame and fingers at each other, as they always do. Actions speak louder than words and this tax is a lose-lose for the FDNY EMS and public safety,” Barzilay added.
https://brooklyn.news12.com/local-ems-union-encourages-workers-to-request-reassignment-out-of-congestion-relief-zone
IN AMENDMENT
murders in NYC
375 in 2024
390 in 2023
shootings in NYC
1091 in 2024
1150 in 2023
New York Ctiy has ten million people , ten percent is one million, one percent is one hundred thousand. a tenth of one percent is ten thousand. a hundredth of one percent is one thousand
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