game 7

(i can't make a simpler game 7.)

"it is simple
 to make the meaning plain
 but it hurts
 revealing my own plainness."

"it is easy to eschew
 seeming oversimplification
 in favour of learned complexity.

 it is easy to break words in-
 to parts in-comprehensible masking
 meaning beneath the shade of end-
 less device."

"simple
 things are not easy and not hard
 like making ideas simple
 or telling the truth and not lying
 or not using the threat of losing to make people pay attention."

i want  to make art
that i can look back at and use to remember
who was i, what was i going through?

i want to make art
that i can show someone --
not necessarily just anyone, but
i should feel comfortable enough sharing it
that i don't avoid it
so in that sense maybe it should be safe
enough.

i want to make art
every day, connecting my present self
to every future self i'll ever become.

i want to make art
for these reasons.

game 6 is instrumental.
does it accomplish these goals?
does it connect me to myself?
does it connect me to others--
the others i want to connect to?
the others i'll want to connect to tomorrow?

these are the design pillars
of game 6
which has yet to reveal itself.

"when you make a game, you decide what to do with it. you decide who plays it. nothing is given. you may play it, or not play it. your friend may play it, or not play it. if a game falls in the forest, it is a game."

"make 30 harmless card games
 in the month of april of 2026."

"PREFACE: numbers of things have existed since the beginning of time! numbers are innocent, without the dirty fingerprints of humanity's oils on them.

utilize numbers in order to get whatever you want, including: more numbers!"

"run score run."

"see score run
your life as a cell of a larger
being without questioning
    its humanity or purpose purpose
being a self
    centered concept and useless
    for our game's purposes — Ah.
    i see i've done it too ascribing
    a human purpose to an inhuman
being."