Impressions on B1 Machine

[Simon Schampijer]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> "Creating" something from scratch is a very advanced stage in ones 
> education.
>
> The first step on the road to being a creator is to make small 
> modifications to something that is already there.
>
> Even highly-experienced programmers do much more modifying than 
> ground-up creation.
>
> Which suggests to me that it would be better to have a compelling game 
> that people like to play as-is, and make it easy to make simple mods 
> without having to first learn a complex framework.
>
> Ideally, it should be possible to expand from that into more and more 
> complex mods, until you have eventually embraced the whole system.

I think you are right that creating something new is an advanced task 
but I think that there are different levels of interaction and we should 
try to provide tools for all of them. One of it is definetly to modify 
existing tools/games.

Memosono-wise the next steps are to bring networking back and then 
improve on the mods. I will make a play mode and an edit mode. In the 
edit mode you can add pictures and sounds to the game ( I hope we will 
have an interface to use the mic-in and camera for such perposes soon 
(if not there yet) ) - so you can create your own memosono games and 
share them with the others.

   Simon