Books, and how they influenced my game
Books,
a five letter word that is all and all,
three years since I’ve started reading, didn’t even start for the sake of reading
I just wanted to know about some game design tips at that time,
but I’ve evolved, perhaps a natural evolution, which was me veering slightly from game design to personal development,
they didn’t do me much good since i knew a lot about that certain subject from Youtube,
so i started skimming most of it, and eventually stooped reading it all together,
and then someday I’ve watched 1984, didn’t know it was a book by Orwell, but i knew him from some game references and whatnot, liked the movie, started to read the novel, it was better than the movie i thought.
and that’s how i got hooked up into the immense world of novels, from Orwell to Huxley to the untimely Dostoevsky,
I’ve read and read again and again,
and in the meantime I’ve started to explore some philosophical concepts, which i thought i wanted and needed to implement in my game, perhaps I’ll talk about that in the future.
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The Nietzschean influence on the way i think and the way that i see the world took place into my brain rapidly, as i read him, book after book, essay after essay,
together with Orwell, Dostoevsky and Huxley they invaded my mind, and subsequently my game “You Are Blue”,
I’ve found myself explicitly and implicitly implementing weird concepts into my game, they might not be that obvious to the player afterwards , but they mean something to me.
I can see through the game pretty clearly, now that I’ve read all that philosophical nonsense,
perhaps I myself am talking nonsense, but it doesn’t matter,
I know now exactly what i want from my game , over 300 puzzles now,
thanks to that five letter word,
perhaps i even know part of that truth that I’ve always aspired to grasp..
Here are my top 10 books :
Brothers Karamazov : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beyond Good & Evil : Friedrich Nietzsche
Crime And Punishment : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brave New World : Aldous Huxley
1984 : George Orwell
The Myth Of Sisyphus : Albert Camus
The Divine Comedy : Dante Alighieri
Flatland : Edwin Abbott
Symbols OF transformation : Carl Gustav Jung
12 Rules For Life : Jordan Peterson
Still a long way to go, didn’t read Tolstoy, Hemingway, and many others yet!
