Was using my thermos mug and realised as I put on the desk that this represents a considerable part of my professional career. I think this was a Starbreeze x-mas present in 2008 or 2009. The Helldivers 2 controller was given to me by Arrowhead earlier this year.

Love this: "AI feels smartest when it handles a situation gracefully that hardly ever comes up. Without that, no amount of clever behaviour will get you there."

Reminded me of this silliness that happened in a prototype this spring:

First week doing systemic design at Arrowhead Game Studios. Excited to see what this brings.

Reading Steve Grand's book Creation: Life and How to Make It, and I'm realising just how great node-based behaviours are for emergence. From Boids through neural networks and onwards will require some further study for future systemic blog posts.

I talked about Systemic Design at Coffee Stain North last Friday, and it was awesome!

There are few things I enjoy quite as much as spreading this gospel, through my blog and through talks and workshops.

Planning to replay one of the greatest games ever made over the Christmas holidays. I loved this game as a kid, and as an adult I am starting to understand why it still feels different compared to modern CRPGs.

Systems!