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As Login ‘09 approaches, most of my weekend time is going to be dedicated to getting my lecture on balance constraints together. This morning, I was gradually converting my many pages of notes into a lecture. At the same time, I discovered Warren Spector’s blog and started reading it beginning with the oldest posts.

I was working on a note about creativity flourishing within constraints, and how I want to be given a box so that I can find a way to break out. Coincidentally, this happened at the same time as I was reading Spector’s post on Clean Slate vs Reactive creativity, and I realized he had written a much more elegant and thorough take on the subject. The post is a year and a half old, but it’s definitely worth a read if you haven’t seen it before. I also recommend reading the two posts that lead up to that one.

I just noticed I didn’t post once in March. Surprisingly, that led to a minor crash in my website traffic! What, is nobody satisfied re-reading the same dull posts?

There were no posts in March because I was moving, and a good chunk of that left me without an easily accessed home computer. I probably won’t be too active in April either, because most of my blog time will be going to writing my lecture for Login ‘09. It’s coming along pretty well. The abreviated (note only, not full text) version is about 7 pages currently. I’ll probably post a preview up here sometime, but if not I will at least post the lecture material when I’m done.

In other news, I finally finished Stalker, and I was quite pleased with the ending. There were many available, and I saw a number of them. Stalker impressed me with its non-narrative driven story. I left with a vivid picture of the game world in my brain.