Comments on: Flat Daddy http://grandtextauto.org/2006/09/30/flat-daddy/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:44:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: 21 Days to Better Halo « Save the Robot - Chris Dahlen http://grandtextauto.org/2006/09/30/flat-daddy/comment-page-1/#comment-122004 21 Days to Better Halo « Save the Robot - Chris Dahlen Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:32:34 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1313#comment-122004 [...] is a miracle nowadays. I’m pretty close to sticking my kid with one of those “flat daddies,” at least to get through my next month’s deadlines. [...] [...] is a miracle nowadays. I’m pretty close to sticking my kid with one of those “flat daddies,” at least to get through my next month’s deadlines. [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://grandtextauto.org/2006/09/30/flat-daddy/comment-page-1/#comment-98786 Patrick Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:43:24 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1313#comment-98786 So, cardboard cut-out NPCs are okay? Seriously though, no matter how generative or emergent your archetechture, you're always going to be fighting a battle of content creation in order to prevent the user from seeing behind the facade, so to speak. This could even be true, in a darkly metaphorical sense, of human relationships, the amount of time you invest, providing content to the person you interact with, is directly related to that person's sense of your reality. So, cardboard cut-out NPCs are okay?

Seriously though, no matter how generative or emergent your archetechture, you’re always going to be fighting a battle of content creation in order to prevent the user from seeing behind the facade, so to speak. This could even be true, in a darkly metaphorical sense, of human relationships, the amount of time you invest, providing content to the person you interact with, is directly related to that person’s sense of your reality.

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