Max Kreminski

game narrative people like to talk about how worldbuilding isn’t storytelling. i agree; in fact i think worldbuilding is actually its own emerging creative practice, with its own virtuosos & masterpieces; it overlaps with storytelling but often feels to me more like architecture, hypertext, collage

imo good crit played a huge role in "games" becoming a more serious art form, community of practice, w/e in the 2010s. & the comparative weakness of "games" today is due in no small part to organized right-wing harassment + apathy from the Games Industry managing to stamp this criticism out

having finally had some time to really *get into* Qud, i'm now fully convinced that it establishes a new high-water mark for interactive procedural text as a literary form the systems admit so many subtle shades of meaning that i can only describe the core player activity as "combat hermeneutics"

when thinking about how we relate to famous works i like to consider the distinction between “monument” and “document”. different scholars use these terms in different ways & my usage is a little idiosyncratic, but imo it’s important to the understanding of art as conversation

imo good crit played a huge role in "games" becoming a more serious art form, community of practice, w/e in the 2010s. & the comparative weakness of "games" today is due in no small part to organized right-wing harassment + apathy from the Games Industry managing to stamp this criticism out

🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools… …& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599

the position consistent with aaron swartz's published writings is quite clearly "training is fair use but we should do guerrilla open access on closed model weights". this seems likely to upset every major faction but i don't think it's incorrect

one really great part of this website is the list of DOGE affiliates. hopefully disrupts the meme that they're a bunch of apolitical-but-enthusiastic young engineers who don't know any better – these people clearly know full well what they signed on to do & we need to make it follow them forever