https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/ Jay Springett lives here on the Internet Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-100340 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:07:26 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-100340 […] similar to Animating Anthropomorphism, their findings showed that if you put a talking rectangle onscreen in front of someone, the user […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-99591 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:19:06 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-99591 […] is a wind-up world that you have agency inside. Set in motion by firing of the plunger, then influenced by the flipper […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-99540 Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:01:07 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-99540 […] If you aren’t familiar with AW’s check out my long essay on ‘Wind-up Worlds‘ […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-99512 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:12:10 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-99512 […] Autonomous Worlds are already here – I’ve seen them.  […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-99469 Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:26:34 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-99469 […] you want to read more from me on Autonomous Worlds: Check out my Wind-up worlds essay from May 2022 or my essay collection at […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-75942 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:38:47 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-75942 […] simulations of little computer people, Tamagotchi pets, or gardens with creatures in them. Wind up worlds fused with idle games that can be played for months and […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-38155 Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:56:38 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-38155 […] wrote my Wind-Up Worlds essay in May of last year. Attended the first AW symposium in November and the follow up hackathon in […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-24485 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:08:06 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-24485 […] longer I work alongside teams doing worlding and building metaverse related things. The more I ask myself: What did they do the first time round? What did they do in the 90s?, how […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-24232 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:31:46 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-24232 […] you want to read more from me on Autonomous Worlds: Check out my Wind-up worlds essay from May 2022 or my essay collection at […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-24161 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:25:26 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-24161 […] are currently getting made on-chain. More like an art project than a game. My idea – a true wind-up world – is more conceptual. One that incorporates many of the affordances that blockchain […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-20188 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:11:40 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-20188 […] D&D and the elusive shift of the 1970’s it was rare for people to encounter systems of any kind (let alone games) that produced narrative. There are some exceptions of course, the iChing, Tarot, Wargames etc. But think about Monopoly, […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-18283 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:58:56 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-18283 […] my blog the other week, I wrote about Wind-up Worlds. World Running, Simulations, DAOs and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-9153 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:40:46 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-9153 […] Might be a good time to refresh/re-read my wind up worlds post. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-3028 Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:12:51 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-3028 […] world with no temporal edge or boundary are the opposite of what I call wind-up worlds : Worlds that produces narratives via the unfolding of predetermined ‘mechanical’ […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2022/05/06/wind-up-worlds/#comment-867 Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:39:01 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=18327#comment-867 […] is a wind-up world that you have agency inside. Set in motion by firing of the plunger, then influenced by the flipper […]

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