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[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — among other things, a great lecture on complexity \/ complicity in a complex world ]
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I am always on about form, practicing ways of seeing form, of recognizing pattern in the very structure and logic of events — as though that practice were practical<\/em>, had some eventual fruitfulness in practice, in the world of worldly affairs. And it may seem strange, erratic, off-course to many of my readers here, especially those who arrive in mid-stream, or with expectations of specifically strategic insight.<\/p>\n

The other day I watched a lecture a friend of mine gave a couple of years back, and I wanted to bring it here because — tangentially — with its loops and diagrams<\/strong> it shows underlying form<\/strong> as it in-forms<\/strong> the games we play, the worlds they conjure, the ways we understand and navigate them, and the world around us — in which we find ourselves, and on which they are, however remotely and ingeniously, based.<\/p>\n

My friend Mike has been lead designer on Sims 2<\/strong> and Ultima Online<\/strong> among other games, and is currently a Professor of Practice in game design at Indiana University, Bloomington.<\/p>\n

Mike Sellers<\/strong>..<\/p>\n