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Resonant Thoughts: Jordan Mechner’s “The Making of Prince of Persia” (2011)
“I’m having trouble preserving that fluidity and realism when I clean it up and stylize the figures” (33). “The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concretereality of what I programmed today” (103). “Level design is a creative process, like screenwriting: you can’t just sit down and put in ten hours at a stretch, you Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Alex Hutchinson’s “The Explorer’s Gene” (2025)
“It turns out that minimizing surprise is equivalent to minimizing entropy, which in turn is equivalent to minimizing another mathematical quantity (borrowed from physics) called free energy. In this way, the goal of minimizing surprise explains both perception and action. We act […] in order to ensure that our predictions become self-fulfilling prophecies” (58). “The Continue reading
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