📐 Game Design was an Egyptian Sport

Hey you,

Now you may not know despite my various rants on math and existential questioning, but I'm a game designer.

Games are perhaps the most complex piece of entertainment mankind has ever devised. Games are able to use almost every single art form we've ever talked about, built out, created awards for, dreamed about or drawn on a cave wall.

And so in a way, a game designer is the highest form of artist you could ever achieve. And we wonder why video games are so entertaining. They are culminations of music, science, arts, storytelling (cough, math) and so many different aspects within each field.

And when they come together, it is like a pyramid.

Now originally, pyramids are four sided, but its 2023 and sorry Cleopatra but we build things different these days. Because video games are like an eight, or Octo ;) sided pyramid. Each piece supports the rest, allowing them to reach toward the peak. And the reason I say pyramid is because, technically you can remove a side of the pyramid and the whole thing won't come crashing down. The rest of the pieces can realign themselves, make the structure somewhat stable again. (The Egyptians were kind of smart ngl)

But the cool part is, I don't think there is a limit to how many pieces you can add.

A cube can only ever have 6, a sphere is hard to define, and don't even try to measure how many a quaternion has.

But a pyramid, theoretically, can continually have pieces added.

As long as the other pieces are trimmed accordingly.

Part 2 coming soon