Why am I creating a game engine? Because, I am creating a game, of course! Specifically I am creating a multiplayer, casual, web game engine to implement the hit game Noace. What is Noace? Well if you are in the Chicago area, hit me up and we can play a game with a standard poker set of cards. However, I will be using the engine to implement the complete version of the game with 60 cards instead of 52. Noace will be the flagship title for the engine, driving development, new features, and direction.
There are three principal problems for the young people of our country right now, a relationship forming crisis, sometimes called the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’, a feeling of political powerlessness and ostricization, and an anxiety about the future. The youth in our country are generally getting more “radical”, with the more concerning point being the desire for harm or suffering, rather than the beliefs themselves. People are getting nastier, and it shows; the data says that the current young generation is the most unhappy any generation has been at their age, and every worse, their unhappiness has changed the U-shaped happiness curve entirely. Young people are so unhappy, the happiness breakdown looks nothing like it has in the last 45 years.
The most important part of your story is the start of it. If someone is interested in writing and self expression, I bet they can image a future where they have an anthology of works to pull from, a lifetime of dedication to their craft to the point of a near-completeness. I always hope to get to that point, at least to be able to write enough to not feel unspoken. I am someone who talks a lot, and my ramblings for hours on so many topics seems purposeless when looked at through the lens of some legacy. Every word I have ever said, every session of pacing back-and-forth– lost in thought and going deeper into a story I have never told, each of these things are gone to the world. There is value in simply leaving something as a thought, not everything has to be written or recorded, but in my life I have seen a lot that is temporary, with no weight, it was there and then it isn’t. Maybe these things were only mentioned in conversation, written then subsequently disgarded, or pushed down into the nothing place by an algorithm. Why can I not fight this? I want to make something truly permanent.