Why games

Insight distilled from Analysis: Minecraft.

Gamify learning — efficiency; games require a pleasant UX.
Video game as a platform — choosing the play style (personalization).
Meaning emerges from context → Plato’s metaphysics:
1. everything already exists;
2. everything that already exists already exists in the metaphysical world;
3. the formula exists before materialization — people discovered it; therefore the most perfect text/software already exists, it just needs to be discovered.
Linguistics (meaning, semiotics) bottom-up: a social contract — use dictates the rule.
Design: a base functionality + a mechanic that encourages curiosity + personalization through more functionality (like redstone in Minecraft).

Miguel