Public Game Design Document: 29.11.21
E♥E is an interactive book, emphasising themes of the occult and interpersonal relationships using simulation based mechanics and procedural generation, for a mature audience.
Month: November 2021
Mechanics: Anticipating The Player With Q-Learning
So, over the last two weeks, I had a chance to experiment a little bit with basic, well-documented forms of reinforcement learning. Not that it stopped me from getting it all wrong the first time. But now, having committed it to code a few times, I feel I can actually speak on it and give a little bit of insight as to what it does.
A Primer On The Aeons
Right then, with the Sefirot done, we’re moving on to the Aeons. I’m going to do a lot of callbacks to that previous article, so I’d suggest you read it first if you want to get more out of what I’m going to write here. There’s a lot of correlation between the two, some natural and some very obviously forced. In addition, I find Gnosticism to be a fascinating topic, to begin with, but I will be only touching on some basic ideas here.
A Primer On The Sefirot
So maybe I’ll be making this a series! In any case, I’m going to write at least two more since they seem to come up a lot in conversations lately. Those two topics are the Sefirot of Kabbalah and the Aeons of Gnosticism. Two subjects that are quite intertwined. And we’ll be starting with the former, as it predates the latter.
Lore: Beneath the Waves
What would a Lovecraftian story be, without horrors inhabiting the deep, dark places of the world? This week we look at two stories with a shared theme of things that come from the ocean. In the second expert, we rise the question of human interactions with creatures that live underwater, where we cannot easily go and explore. And yet, there may be things there that have their own civilisations, unknown and maybe even unknowable to us.
Lore: Taste of the Ningyo
What would a Lovecraftian story be, without horrors inhabiting the deep, dark places of the world? This week we look at two stories with a shared theme of things that come from the ocean. In this first expert, we examine a mythical creature and its strange affects on humans.
A Primer On Alchemy
So I’ve been watching a few people play games where alchemical themes cropped up, which made me think about how rarely people know the basis of alchemy. Thus, I thought I might write a little primer on the important stuff.
Esoteric Musings... 