"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."

"see score
as a force of alignment as boids have
tuning you into a wave."

game 3. score

1. orient yourself as best you can.
    find a map, and your place there.
    point north and know where north is.
    face north.

2. you know where you are.

3. forget where you are.
    forget where north is.

0. you are a child again.

"the gallery is any place that is empty and vast
enough for great things to escape." (pt iv, final part)

"its skittishness is
what makes it what it is.
when it goes, let it go.
do not tame the wild
birds of your soul." (pt iii)

"once situated
in your studio and having in mind
an empty gallery, begin remember-
ing the object lying beneath
the todayness of today.

it is a pigeon, a crow, a great heron.
neither startle it nor coax it.

instead pass its perching-place
    (a tree droops heavily over a river.)
    (the banister of a trafficked bridge.)
and turn your head only regarding
its hugeness as it regards you." (pt ii)