This post gets weirder and weirder as it goes on. It seems to end up at a place suggesting that society is going to crumble around us as everyone spends their time making and playing indie video games. I think that’s a little sensational, to say the least.
Here is the central thesis. There’s a lot to get through before you get to this.
Writing a game nobody plays discharges your energy and creates the feeling of achievement, but it's all empty calories and then your car falls into a sinkhole. If your game succeeds, it’s even worse. Your customers are now also expending all of their energy too, playing your game alone in a room. Meanwhile, sinkholes.
THAT is why I say there are too many indie games. They aren't sustainable. There is too much time wasted, and that will be true until time is applied to making the world work and bridges not fall down and food be in stores. Probably your time.
This could be a premise for a computer game. Society collapses because too many people spent time making and playing indie games.
But society will only be saved if you can unite the gamers, pool together your combined knowledge from playing too much games, and put it to use in productive tasks in the real world. All those hours levelling up in game skills, finally proven IRL.
All we have to do is restructure our entire civilization to work under Minecraft rules. Everything, literally everything must be made out of modular, arbitrarily attachable cubes.
I think it's a bit more than just that, but yeah, it's not very well defined or detailed. A bit of a jobs version of everyone wants to be an influencer on social media, but it's making everyone lonelier.
It's crumbling around us in part because we decided to overspend on infrastructure we don't need for one of the most inefficient form of transportation.
Instead of improving things we already have, we decided to move to the 'frontier', or worse, demolish perfectly good streets.
Here is the central thesis. There’s a lot to get through before you get to this.