Why games
Insight distilled from Analysis: Minecraft.
- Gamify learning — efficiency; games require pleasant UX.
- Video game as platform — choosing the playstyle (personalization).
- Meaning emerges from context → Plato’s metaphysics:
- everything already exists;
- everything that already exists exists in the metaphysical world;
- 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) from the bottom up: social contract — usage dictates the rule.
- Design: base functionality + a mechanic that encourages curiosity + personalization via more functionality (like redstone in Minecraft).
References: Habitica · Plato’s Metaphysics (theory of ideas)