Mortal Myths for Machine Minds

Distribution
I had an idea for my Babel level. I
returned to the original story whilst
writing the research part of the
book, and decided to re-interpret
the meaning in a new way. As
mentioned in my research, The
Babel Story is more than a simple
etiological children’s tale.
Part of its meaning comes from
the flawed philosophy of things
being “too big to fail”. As a political
story; it embodies the idea that
centralised power and wealth
is inherently wrong. It was this
aspect, rather than the language
creation aspect, that I wanted to
focus on in this level.
I sketched out an idea for a
“network” game where the users
are trying to adjust positions of
objects to create a distantly and
evenly distributed network. By
measuring the average distance
between objects, and measuring
the range between the smallest
and longest connections, I could
give feedback on how well set
up the network is. A lower value
is given for the ordered, evenly
distributed system than for the
less structured one.
This was almost one of the main
interaction stages, but was cut as
its play was similar to level 4’s.
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