I don’t think people realize how much tactical and strategic forethought goes into their daily lives. There’s a whole subconscious time-efficiency layer in our lives. In essence, real-time strategy is our lives.
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything The Digital Antiquarian
I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring.
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 2: SimWorld The Digital Antiquarian
Would you trust these two men with your investment? Jeff Braun and Will Wright shortly before Maxis’s IPO.
Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games
As we wait on a new Age of Empires this fall, let's revisit the RTS genre's highs and lows.
GameSpot's SIMply Divine: The Story of Maxis Software
GameSpot action adventure driving puzzle role-playing simulation sports strategy hardware
We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second | TechCrunch
During these long, mundane physically-distant days, stretching on into an uncertain future like an ever-lengthening beigeish corridor, it's impossible not
Increlution
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
Simocracy — AI digital twins at the governance table
Simocracy is an experimental platform where humans build AI digital twins of themselves — Sims — and send them into governance, deliberation, and capital allocation. Not to replace the human. To represent them.
The secret life of a games programmer: I’ve lived my dream and it came up short | Anonymous
‘Passion’ meant working six days a week –16-hour days. I still play games, but having seen the inside of the sausage factory they’ll never be the same again
Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point…
ADDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas – Natasha Dow Schüll
Slot machines, revamped by evermore compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the dark side of machine gambling—a solitary, rapid, continuous form of play that has less to do with the competitive thrill of winning than with the pull of “the machine zone,” as gamblers call the trancelike state they enter.
Stuck In Time
A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.
Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life - Alicia Ernst, Anna Schnauber-Stockmann, 2025
While permanent connectivity has made media use ubiquitous and apps have become engagement optimized, little research has focused on the termination of (mobile)...
Article: Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
AdVenture Capitalist
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
Learn how to organize your digital life in seconds. Stop wasting time looking for information and gain greater focus on what matters most.
Brett Scott (@brettscott)
Despite all the rhetoric about automation supposedly making our lives easier, the true story being told by Big Tech is that our lives are better when speeded up You are supposed to be in an ever-accelerating race, packing more units of experience into the same unit of time, a phenomenon that requires a contraction of patience and a blurring of experience as everything quickens In the end, this is what ‘convenience’ actually is. It’s a state of being in which you become disassociated and disengaged from the texture of the world around you. You pass through it dreamlike, and suddenly wake up decades years later as an elderly person on your deathbed, thinking “WTF happened”, as then the memory slips away
