An interesting article about just how recently generation-wise we are all related to each other.
What I really want is that computer program that they used to demonstrate reproduction and migration rates among populations, turned into a game instead of a simple program, with the ability to control all the little people. Well, not all of them, a few million might be too much to handle. I'm thinking sort of a cross between Sims and AoE where you have the ability to completely rewrite the history of the world. The option to start at particular points in history would be nice as well, so you could have an alternate history stemming from that particular era. And there would have to be a cutting-off point somewhere in the future, though letting run a little into the sci-fi future possibilities would be fun, with the option to branch out and settle planets and create certain technologies that we don't know yet whether we'll actually have.
Then again, the whole thing would take so long I'm not sure anyone would play it through to the end. Possibly by just letting it run in the background and occasionally make changes; that's how I'd do it. And there would have to be some sort of definite ending to come to instead of just, "ooops, we've run out of ideas...." Though the sims don't that I recall. Perhaps just a readout of current population statistics at whatever point you decide to stop. It wouldn't be completely just watching things grow, as you could go in and setup the battles, perhaps even take a first person view of one of the soldiers, or of someone exploring new territory, or similar things. Obviously if there was a certain group of people that you wanted to eventually take control of the world, you could work toward that goal, starting at whatever point in time you wanted.
I'm thinking we'd need better computers to run all of this. Which gives us plenty of time to design the thing while we work on getting more power.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Hey, We're Related! or What Happens When I Control the World
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I would totally play that game! I got addicted to The Sims last year when I was in Ireland and I was absolutely thrilled when I found out the family here in Paris had them too! hé hé hé
You game would be sooooo much better! Oh tyr and find somewhere to market that idea of your Bronwyn. Really. This is the perfect time to manufacture a game like that! You could eve do a section that was a log in player game mode, Like World of War Craft does. So you would have people from all over the world playing a little part in trying to save their races or distroy the others or interbreed and form alliances... oh so cool.
By the way thanks for the link to the pictures!
It would be brilliant! But very very involved. Maybe I'll try anyway.
Come to think of it, I can't take full credit for the idea - I didn't remember until now, but a similar game is suggested in some book I read. Probably one of OSC's.. I want to say one of the Worthing Saga stories, but I'm not certain. Similar idea but I believe it was real time, with various people around the world buying the option to control a certain civilization in the most major version of the game.
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