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Will Wright's Dream Machines
Mike writes "Will Wright writes in Wired Magazine, primarily centering his focus on imagination, how it affects the way we play games, and how it is affected in turn by the games we play. From the article: 'Games cultivate - and exploit - possibility space better than any other medium. In linear storytelling, we can only imagine the possibility space that surrounds the narrative: What if Luke had joined the Dark Side? What if Neo isn't the One? In interactive media, we can explore it.'"
Back in my day we were happy with a ball of aluminium foil and a pizza box.
We didn't need any of these newfangled vi-jeo games.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
What if Neo isn't the One?
Then the credits woulda started rolling right after the oracle told him he wasn't, halfway through the first movie, and we'd have all been spared an hour, and 2 crappy sequels.