{"id":1283,"date":"2015-02-13T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/?page_id=1283"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:38:52","slug":"ambitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of my life, I wanted to be a scientist. I never dreamed\u00a0of being a game developer.<\/p>\n<p>Yet after working in autonomous robotics and automation, obtaining a physics degree, and watching a strange world become stranger, videogames started to seem like the best way to explore my ideas and share them with other people.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the areas that I would like to explore through Nonadecimal Creative. If you&#8217;re interested in any of these too, launch a message at <a title=\"@Nonadecimal\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nonadecimal.com\">@Nonadecimal<\/a> and maybe we&#8217;ll have an interesting conversation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Creating\u00a0an RPG that relies on <a href=\"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/procedural-narrative\/\">procedural narrative<\/a>, building the story from the player&#8217;s actions instead of the other way around.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Designing\u00a0an emotional AI for simulated agents\u00a0that have dynamic objectives, feelings, and relationships with human characters and other simulated agents.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Modeling simplified explorations of complicated real world scenarios. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the interconnected mess that is the global economic and financial system (corporate backstabbing in <a href=\"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/black-ice\/\">Black Ice<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>the economic forces perpetuating incarceration<\/li>\n<li>the feedback loops involved\u00a0in the global ecosystem (cellular automata feedback loops in <a href=\"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/automata-empire\/\">Automata Empire<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>how people treat one another (an attempt:\u00a0<a title=\"Social Justice Warriors\" href=\"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/socialjusticewarriors\/\">Social Justice Warriors<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reinforcing behaviors of deductive reasoning\u00a0and empathy<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Making people more comfortable with probabilities and statistics<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Making people more comfortable with very large numbers<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reinforcing an understanding of the basics of chemistry<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reinforcing knowledge of Earth&#8217;s history, possibly through fictional representations of historical events (a tiny\u00a0attempt: the mythological afterlifes of <a title=\"Afterdeath\" href=\"https:\/\/nonadecimal.com\/site\/afterdeath\/\">Afterdeath<\/a>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Making a game for corvids to play. They already have a documented grasp of causality, problem-solving, and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/crows-are-even-smarter-than-we-thought-possible-1686074962\">analogical reasoning<\/a>. Seems like they could play videogames!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of my life, I wanted to be a scientist. I never dreamed\u00a0of being a game developer. 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