Why games
Insight distilled from Analysis: Minecraft.
- Gamify learning — efficiency; games require a pleasant UX.
- Video game as platform — choose the game style (personalization).
- Meaning arises from context → Platonic metaphysics:
- everything already exists;
- everything that already exists already exists in the metaphysical world;
- the formula exists before materialization — people discovered; thus, the perfect text/software already exists, it just needs to be discovered.
- Linguistics (meaning, semiotics) bottom-up: social contract — the use dictates the rule.
- Design: base functionality + a mechanic that encourages curiosity + personalization via more functionality (like redstone in Minecraft).
References: Habitica · [Platonic Metaphysics (Theory of Forms)](<<<2>>)