Games & playable systems
Action, control, feedback, collision, cooperation, competition and consequence become testable through play.
Creator · creations · purpose-reasoning
Theodore Benjamin Scott / JM creates across games, software, theory, language, music, tools and publication — then repeatedly enters the work as its first user, tester, observer and corrector.
I create it → I enter it → it teaches me → I create again.
Who
Theodore is the person and source. JM / JMISJUSTME / JM32 carry major build routes. B. Lyrikz carries the lyric and music route. JM TheOlogist / TheOlogist carries a major theory route. Kocodifier, Kodeveloper and Konegineer name increasingly evidenced creator functions. Authuser names what repeatedly happens between the creator and the work.
What he creates
Action, control, feedback, collision, cooperation, competition and consequence become testable through play.
Meaning is pushed into structure, instruction, behaviour, state, trace and reusable operation.
Models examine meaning, evidence, relation, cognition, participation and what a claim actually earns.
Pattern, rhythm, compression, identity and layered meaning become externally encounterable.
Form, sequencing and interface can participate in an argument rather than merely carrying text.
Creations remain findable, distinguishable and continuable through lineage, receipts, manifests and recovery routes.
Why
The variety is not the purpose. It is a consequence of the method. A personal observation can become a theory; a theory can become an interface; an interface can reveal a coding requirement; code can become a tool; a tool can expose a game mechanic; play can expose something new about interaction; the contact can send the creator back to the theory.
Find what is happening. Preserve what matters. Give it a body. Enter the body. Let reality answer. Correct what contact exposes. Make what survives recoverable. Then let it travel farther than its source.
Method
A compelling model is not automatically reality. A successful implementation does not prove exclusivity. A source does not become proof merely because it is sincere. The route is made visible so correction can improve the body rather than destroy the project.
Enter the work