Games
Games shape our culture; then culture evolves to change how and why we play the game.
Playing games is perfect for creating inspirational collisions that can spark ideas, and flow of capital and resources. In the end it's all about co-ordinating goodwill.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely Players, they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
Play long-term games with with long-term people.
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Principles
Game design is cultural engineering at the highest form, providing experiences that shape how we interpret reality.
Stories develop culture, culture builds loyalty, loyalty builds liquidity. Where liquidity can be thought of as any form of asset, resource or instrument that allows a greater flow and options.
Crypto backed games provide greater incentives for participation than traditional games, allowing people to with a wider range of interests to find enjoyment in a broader sense of playing the game.
Every time you play a game, you're choosing how to spend your time and attention. That is a decision we are constantly making that is often operating at a subconscious level and we don't necessarily take ownership of it. If you can start to ask yourself, why am I playing this game? And why did I want to play it now and start to articulate why you're making the choice to play? I think that, that actually can help you develop more clarity in all of the things you do. - Jane McGonigal
The games we choose to play are the best teachers, with languages that are both unique and universal. Everything is a coordination game. The bonds created by playing games are far more valuable than the results.
- Culture builds trust
- Trust builds loyalty
- Loyalty builds liquidity
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the arts that have influenced us - Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life - Oscar Wilde
The Game of Life
Common challenges on the journey from the cradle to the grave.
- Search for Meaning
- Manage Time and Energy
- Learn independently
- Gather allies / Build a network
- Understand enemies
- Evolve exercise routines
- Establish healthy sleep habits
- Match diet to your body chemistry
- Find cultural identity through Art/Dance/Food/Music/Sport
- Develop your personal brand
- Handle addiction
- Sexual relationships
- Earn a living
- Manage your money
- Buy a home/investment property
- Voting
- Experience Travel
- Govern an organisation/community
- Finding a Partner
- Gain equity in a business/protocol
- Raise a family
- Switch careers
- Decide how to retire
- The endgame
Phygital Games
Phygital Gaming is the combination of physical and digital gaming experiences.
For many, digital experiences are more valued than the physical world. Mixed reality sport with be the next evolution of gaming human potential.
Personal Growth
Playing games builds confidence you can adapt to challenging situations.
Games are designed to frustrate players, forcing them to adapt by learning new systems and rules, which builds transferable skills for the real world.
For information to be valuable it needs to be understandable and actionable. Game provide a system to explore your own learning curve at a rate the maintains a flow state.
The games we choose to play are the best teacher and motivator for growth.
Coordination Games
Games sell stories, stories shape culture, culture builds loyalty, loyalty brings liquidity.
To coordinate capital, the strength of culture attracts attention and loyalty. The games we play are critical to building culture. Playing games is an essential learning tool because they teach good decision making processes in lower stakes environments.
There are no moats, just culture.
Humans innate ability to intuitively coordinate to collaborate is our strongest power and provides the strongest feeling of fulfilment. Games will form the social glue of digital cities that live on top of a mesh of blockchain protocols.
A game can become a bank easier than banking can change it's culture.
With open source DeFI protocols every game can easily evolve into a liquidity factories that can be used to fund the development of coordination games.
Project management is a coordination game. A business is a series of projects to explore growth opportunities.
The future of games is phygital. What gamers can coordinate to build in the digital world will be built in the physical world.
Interoperability and composability standardisation and learning from coordination games holds the key to leveraging AI to unlock human potential to innovate safely at scale.
Evolve coordination games between Players and Agents build trusted relationships.
- Intentions
- Incentives
- Actions
- Outcomes
- Reflection
- Questions
Balancing Human Intelligence with AI
Education Games
Marketing Games
Onchain Games provide an essential marketing vehicle to cut through AI campaign pollution.