Improving/Exalting/Simplifying Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Gears of
War, GTA, Fallout, Left For Dead, and all RPGs/FPSs With TheGold45Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise Technology & Making $$$
$Billions$$$ in the Renaissance
by Dr. Elliot McGucken on 07/30/09 12:29:00 pm
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Improving/Exalting/Simplifying ASSASSIN'S CREED with TheGold45Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise Technology:

The game opens in Rome.  From street to street you walk, on by the
Parthenon and Coliseum.  You hear bits and pieces of conversations,
and your task is to infiltrate the communist movement and carry out
missions so as to prove your trustworthiness, as you rise on towards
the top, so you can assassinate the communist leader.

You can see the titles of the books people are carrying/reading in the
cafes, and you can can accept and read the pamphlets they are passing
out.  Sometimes you pick one up after they drop it, while getting up
from their table in the cafe.  You see the Marxist philosophy
expressed, so you subtly follow them and say, "excuse me--I think you
dropped this."  They thank you.  "It's good reading," you choose to
say, and they introduce themselves.  You are standing beneath an
ancient archway inscribed with Virgil's immortal words, and you smile
to yourself, as the words remind you of your true, exalted mission:
"Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito."

This would be a brand new form of spy/assassin game, centered about
the player's knowledge regarding various politcial philosophies, which
would guide them in their choices in the dialogue trees, by which they
would either move closer to the top of the communist party, or be
exiled/killed.   Imagine how fun that would be to fool communists en
route to kiling their leader!  Of course any other ideologies/ideas
could be used/woven into the AI/technology, but the novel dynamic
would be the same.

The novel technology would perform best for the most realistic
scenarios acknowledging the fact that freedom's classical ideals have
ever lead to greater peace and propserity than collectivism's.
Imagine pretending to sympathize with the ideologies of the Red Coats/
Scottish Nobles/Sauron/Nazis while infiltrating their ranks to kill
their leader.  And imagine the dire consequences of saying the wrong
thing at the wrong time!

The more convincing you are in the dialogue (dialogue trees such as
Mass Effect, but endowed with the ideas have consequences technology
which deals with different ideologies that have far-ranging
consequences which will be rendered in the game)--the more you respond
and interact like a communist--the faster you move up, and the less
*physical/risky* missions you have to perform to prove your worth to
the communist party.  If you fail to rise to the top and assassinate
the leader, tens of millions will be killed; and freedom and liberty
will be taken from all in the triumphant communist regime.

In various embodiements of the game, there will also be opportunities
to bring communists over to your side by quoting the US Constitution/
Founding Fathers/etc., so as to help you achieve your goals, but watch
out, as it might get you killed!  Best to move slowly and wait for
them to broach the subject of the Constitution and liberty, but watch
out again, as it could be a trap!  Especially coming from a hot woman
you just spent the night with!

Missions may involve you passing out communist pamphlets, defacing the
opposing party's posters/signs signifying liberty, and disseminating
propaganda.  Missions could also involve you having to prove your
worth by killing members of the opposing party--(your party!)--so as
to rise on up, but such actions could result in losing the game, as
you would be living the dervish "ends justify the means" philosopy.

At any rate, all embodiements end with the ideas or ideals--first
heard in words--rendered in deeds.  If you fail to kill the communist
leader, you get to witness tens of millions dying.  If you succeed,
you get to witness liberty and an exalted, prosperous, and free
world.

OMG!  We're surrounded by fanboys!  & we forgot ourGold45Revolvers
at home!

Of course different ideologies could be explored/incorporated, and
various game designers would endow game with thier own preferred ideas
and supposed consequences.  But the richest games will be those which
remain close to freedom's spiritual reality; as well as the classic,
epic, common story uniting all those who have fought for exalted
liberty, truth, and freedom.

The games would rely on the player's knowledge/intuition regarding the
various tenets of the ideologies.  Both direct quotes from Marx/Lenin/
Stalin/Mussolini could be used, as well as dialogue containing the
basic themes of communism; as well as quotes/themes from Jefferson/
Hayek/Mises.

Again, this is another subset of novel gaming types afforded by my
research:

 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL
REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

Improving/Exalting/Simplifying MASS EFFECT with TheGold45Revolver/
Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise Technology:

While Mass Effect does have various endings, the design teams
complicate the game design vastly, leading to far more work, by
neglecting to incorporate simple classical ideals--simple moral
premises, which could influence and unify the AI/algorithms for love
and war as well as the internal and external action.  Aristotle noted
that the internal action--the physical and dramatic action--are united
by a common ideal or moral premise.  In The Matrix and Star Wars, the
moral premise runs straight up the middle--does one selflessy serve
truth and freedom, or does one serve the dark side/Matrix?  The great,
heroic economists of freedom--Mises and Hayek-- also perceived that
economics is a moral quest.   Mass Effect's shortcoming is that it
ultimately doesn't matter if one is good or bad--the moral choices
have nothing to do with aactual morality in our universe wherein ideas
have consequences.

"The Ludwig von Mises' Institute's official motto is Tu ne cede malis
sed contra audentior ito, which comes from Virgil's Aeneid, Book VI;
the motto means "do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly
against it." Early in his life, Mises chose this sentence to be his
guiding principle in life. It is prominently displayed throughout the
Institute's campus, on their website and on memorabilia." --http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute

Now imagine if the character were presented that quote at the
beginning of the game, and then called upon to live up to it.

Again, MASS EFFECT never shows the rendering of classical ideals
real.  For instance,  one is not able to hear Jefferson's, nor
Cicero's, nor Scorates', nor Aristotle's, nor Mises' words; nor is one
able to see them rendered real in the game.  In forming a fellowship,
one is not able to judge characters via their ideals and *character.*
But soon, the game will exalt all this!

Improving/Exalting/Simplifying FALLOUT with TheGold45Revolver/
Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise Technology:

This was handled towards the bottom here (bottom of the comments):http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

Opinion: 'Fallout 3 - I Kill Children'
by Simon Parkin [In a new opinion piece, game producer and journalist
Simon Parkin examines Fallout 3's block on harming children in the
game, suggesting that, even with its obviously good intentions, it has
proved "video games' ineffectiveness in providing meaningful
disincentives and negative repercussions for in-game atrocities".]

Self-censorship was the least effective course of action open to
Bethesda if they are looking to morally instruct their players. Why
not take the route less traveled and try to implement some meaningful
consequence, something beyond an essentially meaningless "karma" stat?
(YES!! THE KARMA IS MEANINGLESS! WHY NOT INCORPORATE AGOLD45REVOLVERWHICH ONLY SHOOTS ZEUS'S LIGHTNING IN THE END IF YOU HAVE
BEEN DOING THE RIGHT, MORAL THING THROUGHOUT?)

Of course it is the route less traveled for a reason: it's a whole lot
more work. (NO IT ISN'T! JUST GIVE THE PLAYER A WEAPON WHICH LOSES ITS
POWER THE MORE EVIL THEY BEHAVE! THE PATENT SOLVES THIS PROBLEM IN A
SIMPLE/EFFICIENT MANNER!) The framework of systems and rules that
govern Fallout 3 serve the setting: a place of lawless anarchy. As
such it's difficult to introduce a potent enough disincentive to
murdering children (NO IT ISN'T! JUST GIVE THE PLAYER A WEAPON WHICH
LOSES ITS POWER THE MORE EVIL THEY BEHAVE! THE PATENT SOLVES THIS
PROBLEM IN A SIMPLE/EFFICIENT MANNER! IF YOU SHOT CHILDREN, THE45
WILL NOT GLOWGOLD& SHOOT ZEUS'S LIGTNING, AND THE MBA FEMMINST
FANBOY VAMPIRES WILL OVERCOME AND KILL YOU IN THE END!!). And, in more
general terms it's hard to make any game talk to a player in true
terms of "good" and "bad," when the medium's primary vocabulary is one
of "success" and "failure." (HUH? KILLING CHILDREN IS BAD! KILL KIDS > NOGOLD454 U! NO ZEUS LIGHTNING 4 U!)

In real life, if you kill a child, you will be imprisoned and,
depending on where you live, killed for the crime. Not only that but,
insanity aside, there will also be heavy physical, mental and
emotional repercussions to your action, things that will stay with you
throughout the rest of your life.

How can these kinds of severe, complex outputs be communicated in a
video game? (KILL KIDS AND YOU WILL SUFFER A HORRID DEATH FROM THE
SWARMING HORDES OF VAMPIRE/ZOMBIES SCREAMING MBA BUZZWORDS AND THE
FIATACORAY'S CLOGANS!) Do you, as in Steel Battalion, kill the player
and wipe the save game to teach a lesson? Or do you, as in Fable 2,
let the player's evil shape the character's physical appearance,
making them more unpleasant and ugly for it? (GIVE THE PLAYER A WEAPON
WHICH LOSES ITS POWER THE MORE EVIL THEY BEHAVE ALREADY!)

Video games will always struggle to provide deeper, more nuanced
consequences. (YES IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!) Try to provide multiple
narrative routes through your experience, and costs will skyrocket
into the implausible. Restrict the player's abilities in order to
impede their progress and you have a weak compromise that offers
little in the way of persuasive or realistic moral instruction. (THE
CURRENT PATENT SOLVE THIS DILEMMA BY CENTERING THE NARRATIVE AROUND
MORAL PREMISES AND PLOT POINTS, AS WELL AS A NOVEL WEAPON!)

These are difficult questions with few satisfying answers (UNTIL NOW
DUDE! CH-CH-CHECK THE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO
GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES PATENT).
But no matter what, in removing the opportunity to kill children in
their anarchic game, Bethesda has admitted video games'
ineffectiveness in providing meaningful disincentives and negative
repercussions for in-game atrocities. That the team chose to carve the
issue out of their game rather than attempt to engage it head on,
speaks volumes. (VOLUMES!!!)

"NO COMPELLING VIDEO GAME NARRATIVE WAS EVER MADE BY A WRITER WHO HAD
HIS GUTS CLENCHED UP IN FEAR. AS WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE,
HEROIC BRAVERY
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ) IS WHAT IS
NEEDED." --Kyle B. Stiff, --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by
Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

"But the stuffed suits refused to budge an inch regarding their policy
of not working with creative script writers who have the backbone to
take risks. Instead, they stand ready to declare yet another "death
of storytelling" in video gaming." --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF
HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

After video games were relegated to something to do while stuck
in traffic, the Anti-story movement became lax A game called THE
ODYSSEY was made. It was marketed as an educational tool, something
to help high school kids understand the ancient literature; a
necessary ruse to have a story-driven game green-lit. It was about
Odysseus and his long journey home from the Trojan War. The gods
opposed him and he had to fight a horde of misshapen beasts using
brute strength and nauseatingly violent finishing moves. There were
tactical elements as well, as Odysseus had a crew of goons to back him
up. And role-playing dialogue too, in which the player controlled
Penelope, Odysseus's wife, as she devised plots to delay a horde of
suitors from claiming her husband's estate.... Damn, we loved it! The
final scene was vilified in mainstream news because, just as in the
original tale, Odysseus and his son round up Penelope's unhelpful
servants, take them behind some building, and slaughter them. ... But
we didn't love the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because
it made us feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey
towards a goal rather than slogging from one day to the next. --page
111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE,
NOVEMBER, 2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-
evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

(EXALTING THE MEANINGFUL HERO'S JOURNEY!("But we didn't love
the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because it made us
feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey towards a
goal."--Kyle B. Stiff, 11/2009))[1790]The basic concepts and ideas in
this invention will have far-ranging implications for the realm of
video games, for the greater culture, novel video games, greater
commercial opportunities in the realm of games, greater and enhanced
opportunities in merging games with film and literature, greater
opportunities for games with deep and profound souls and storytelling,
and new opportunities for games with vast educational potential. The
ideas and embodiments described herein may be modified, extended, and
improvised upon in countless ways. The present invention can bring
both the external hero's journey, that Moses and Odysseus traveled, as
well as the internal hero's journey, that Jesus and Socrates walked.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg8hzBRt

4. System and Method for Female Video Game Characters With Soul and
Virtue and Male Characters With Soul and Virtue:

[1622]Imagine video games that presented female characters with the
depth of soul and spirit owned by classical characters such as
Penelope, Beatrice, Mary Magdelane, the Virgin Mary, and The Mona
Lisa.

[1623]Having female characters behave and act morally, while others
don't, would provide a novel form of gameplay. For instance, in the
Odyssey, Agamemnon's wife cheats on him, and the man she takes in ends
up killing Agamemnon. This is contrasted to Penelope, who remains
faithful throughout, thusly ensuring that Odysseus's life and home are
preserved. So it is that in this novel form of video games, women will
be shown on both sides of the moral premise, and not only that, but
their moral choices will be fundamental to the eventual victory or
defeat.

[1624]Opportunities abound for deeper, more profound female
characters, as fanboys such as Cliffyb and Wyckyg are yet focusing on
breasts, as Wired reports: [1625]"Speaking to Wired.com at Microsoft's
recent media event, the designer (above left) says that Epic Games is
trying to make their upcoming Xbox 360 shooter more appealing to the
casual audience. The game's female characters, he said, won't have
"ginormous tits." And the lauded kill-alien-swarms-with-a-buddy
cooperative mode will let you adjust the game's difficulty on the fly
depending on who's playing. How do you make a game girlfriend-
friendly? You do jump-in, jump-out co-op. You have configurable
difficulty settings for the other player. You have very cool and bad-
ass main characters that have a very human side. And you make sure
that the female characters in your game don't have ginormous tits and
aren't bad stereotypes. What are the female characters in Gears 2
like? I've always made sure, working with the art department, that
Anya is strong-willed but also very mother-like to the squad. She has
a very modest chest and doesn't look like some sort of heavy metal
movie fantasy."--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/cliffy-b-
gears.html

[1626]Well, that is vast and resounding progress. Boobs are mentioned
three times in the above passage, although nobody mentions the vast
importance of the moral woman's character in the realm of classical,
epic storytelling. No gaming expert has yet ever suggested that the
ultimate woman character in a video game ought behave morally, like
Penelope. In our dumbed-down, spectacle-driven society, morality is
seen as a bad thing--the exact antithesis to art. And so the best the
fanboys can do is make the in-game character's breast-size smaller.
There is no mention of making them faithful, nor having them speak
intelligently, nor making them weave and unweave a tapestry, as does
Penelope, to keep the suitors at bay, while waiting faithfully for
Odysseus. So it is that games have yet to achieve higher, classical,
epic art. And so it is that this patent, by instilling deep ideas and
ideals within the game's context and AI, will allow for superior
gameplay.

[1627]Female Characters with Soul and Virtue: Every year Play Magazine
publishes its Girls of Gaming collection which states at
http://playmagazine.com/thegirlsofgaming/index.html, Girls of Gaming
Vol. 5 "is jam packed with hotness from every corner of the gaming
universe and when you sign up to go digital you'll get our 20-page
Best-Of Girls of Gaming absolutely free, along with bonus mature
content too hot for print. The print edition is something special as
well, featuring embossed, spot varnished covers and top quality
materials." Year after year Play Magazine publishes this work, and
year after year the industry creates games; but they are missing soul
on both the masculine and feminine levels. A game that showed a
character being seduced, but resisting, as did Penelope in The
Odyssey, could enhance game play by inspiring and exalting the main
character to make it on home. Imagine cut-scenes that showed women
reading exalted poetry, or lines from Shakespeare' plays, representing
virtues. They could be contrasted to evil women and temptresses
throughout literature. [1628]1. Imagine cut scenes that showed women
acting with virtue to inspire the player to make it on home. For
instance, seeing Penelope behaving virtuously and resisting the
suitors could inspire the player to make it on back to the damsel in
distress. [1629]2. Imagine cut-scenes that showed men acting with
virtue to inspire the female in-game-character to also act virtuous.
For instance imagine a character of Penelope witnessing Odysseus's
resistance of the Sirens, or his other noble actions and refusals of
temptations.

[1630]If a player were playing as Penelope, and they did not act
morally and took on a suitor as Husband, the suitor would kill her
husband when she got home, as happened with Agamemnon. Thus moral
actions would have moral consequences; and immoral actions would have
immoral consequences.

[1631]A game such as GTA could be enhanced by allowing the player to
shoot the pimp and save the women/prostitutes, telling the women to
sin no more.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg1XASLw

[1774]FIG. 5 illustrates how the present invention may be used to
bring the great books and classics alive in a dialogue and action
tree, wherein ideas have consequences. The present invention may
father future inventions which treat this fundamental, basic concept
in far more detail. The player (500) would reach a plot point in
Homer's Odyssey (501). The player would then have to make a choice of
what to say/do. By choosing Odysseus's words and/or his actions (504),
such as telling his men to tie him to the mast, the player is rewarded
with the exalted plot of the Odyssey as they are taken closer to
winning their home and Penelope, and they get to encounter the next
plot point (504). But, if the player (500) chooses actions and words
other than Odysseus's (503), and tells his men not to tie him to the
mast, and the player (500) instead seeks out the sirens, or lotus
eaters, then he shall fail and be taken off course. By mapping the
dialogue and action trees of a video game straight onto a classic, the
present "ideas have consequences" invention could be realized, as
ultimately, all Great Books and Classics are driven by Characters who
harbor ideals, and their ultimate victory or defeat is a consequence
of ideals. This is why the prior art such as GTA and GOW and Fallout3
is boring.

[1785]FIG. 16 illustrates how the present invention could exalt the
hero's journey in a superior manner, and bring it to life in video
games. The various stages of the classical hero's journey which Joseph
Campbell made famous are listed in (1601). At each and every stage,
the player must make a choice--a choice which consists of what ideas
or ideals they choose to serve. For instance, if they see a hooker and
hire her and shoot her, that counters classical ideals. If they talk
to her and befriend her, that is sympathetic to classical ideals. The
Hero's Journey has ever been walked and advanced by those who have
served classical, epic ideals; and by serving exalted ideas, the
gameworld is rewarded with exalted consequences (1605). This diagram
suggests a superior method of exalting epic story in the realm of
video games. Note how the action keeps coming back to the central
premise and question--does the player serve an exalted idea (1602)? If
so, the player advances to a later step in the hero's journey (1606).
If not, the player retreats to an earlier point in the hero's journey
(1607). So it is that love, temptation, war, peace, the death, forming
the fellowship, calling the bluff and speaking truth to power--much of
which was depicted in earlier figures and descriptions in this
invention--can be unified in simple algorithms based upon ideas and
ideals. Such simple ideals, which are yet so subtle and so often
elusive, have powered and propelled mythology through the ages,
exalting the Bible and Homer for thousands of years--for the soul of
those books are based upon classical ideals--elements that have been
opposed in this life. So it is that just as ideas have consequences in
real life, they can have vast and resounding consequences in video
games, exalting games to new heights. From novel games exalting the
plot points in Homer's Odyssey, to the American Revolution, to all the
classic battles and showdowns for Western Civilization, video games
can be exalted, and reunited with infinite love deriving not from
hiring and killing hookers, but for living and fighting for Penelope
and Beatrice, as did William Wallace and King Leonidas, as 300 and
Braveheart were ultimelt not war stories, but love stories--the love
for higher ideals. The novel video games afforded by this invention
will allow the player to love and honor classical ideals, and render
ideals real in a virtual world, just as heroes do in real life. So it
is that video games will become more spiritually and artistically
realistic, with deeper and more exalted spirits, built upon classical
idealism's solid rock.

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[0008]The present invention will foster a new era of exalted gaming in
multiple formats and forms, including RPGs, FPS, an MMORPGs, and too,
it would provide enhanced means for bringing successful films and
dramatic art to life in the realm of video games and gaming. Producers
have failed time and again to translate movies into games and games
into movies, and that is because they do not comprehend nor grasp the
secret--the classical ideals which have consequences and the simple
moral premise must be woven into the fabric of games at very level.
For the classical ideals are the most efficient and natural and simple
way to unite the plot and the subplot, the dramatic action and
physical action, the love interest and the battle. Most fanboy
producers, who came of age in a declining fiatocracy, are used to
arrogance, hypes, and doublespeak as methods and means for producing
movies, which ultimately suck. So it is that this present invention
would exalt and foster novel video games that would in turn exalt and
foster a cultural renaissance; wherein one would be able to battle the
snarky fiatocracy producers head-on, both in the context game and
beyond it, finally avenging all the innocent civilians, prostitutes,
children, cops, and unborn who have been killed by the fiatocracy's
fanboys, while the artist's natural rights have been dismantled and
debauched, and the home and family destroyed along with the currency.
So often it is that the poet and hero know not what they do, and this
game humbles itself before the epic poets, prophets, and heroes of all
ages; even as Socrates' ultimately, and reluctantly humbled himself
before Homer, who was exalted by Aristotle. This patent humbles itself
before the secret of epic storytelling. This patent does not drive
down Sunset in a Ferrari, as fanboys and failed producers do,
screaming and hyping their lackluster creations--lackluster movies
based on video games, or lackluster video games based on movies--as
exalted art; but rather this invention simply states that all epic
story derives for living for, speaking for, and sometimes dying for
higher ideals. Such is the way it has ever been, and will always be;
and this invention will exalt a higher realm of games and gaming by
returning this central tenet to modern art, leading with Character and
Plot based on Virtue as did Aristotle, and introducing all these
soulful, sacred, moral agents in the realm of video games.

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[0009]This present invention is penned in the context that this is
going to sound crazy to all the fanboy experts, and counter their
expert fanboy opinions, but in contemplating story in the realm of
video games, why not turn to the greatest stories ever written--Homer,
Shakespeare, and the Bible? I understand that we live in a declining
fiatocracy, but get over it. This fiatocracy won't be around forever,
and someday people will be free to act upon their desire to play games
founded upon classical ideals and idealism, wherein ideas have
consequences, and where they can engage in meaningful gameplay, such
as protecting and defending the Constitution, and protecting the
unborn and borders of an empire, instead of fighting random fiat
monsters on foreign shores. I know that many fanboys insist that games
should have no intellectual content, and that they should merely exist
to satiate the fanboy fantasies of hiring and killing hookers, jacking
cars, killing cops and civilians, and doing drugs, and that is fine
and good for their era and realm of gaming. But the times, they are a
changin'. Surely, as we live in an open-ended world with freedom, the
fiat fanboys ought stop opposing exalted games with classical soul and
spirit. They can keep their close-minded, conservative ways--that is
fine by us--but the world will know a renaissance in classical
liberalism in the realm of video games, wherein one gets to battle for
the US Constitution--the one that the Founding Fathers wrote, and not
the one interpreted by the fiatocracy's feminized/dumbed-down fanboys.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg0MC8QW

A New Realm of Exalted Gaming

The Autumn Rangers Video Game Engine

[0010]Imagine the Autumn Rangers video game--a game where being in
love was as important as fighting in battle, just as it was in Homer's
Odyssey, Braveheart, and 300. Imagine a game which let you speak out
for liberty's ideals before fighting for the US Constitution, as did
the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and the
countless brave men and women in uniform. Imagine a game which let you
defend the spirit of The Declaration of Independence in word and deed,
and which united the internal dramatic action and external conflict en
route to Aristotle's third act--the thundering, epic showdown.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg0QbYAa

[0977]Again, Wright is missing the emptiness of the current system of
video games, as in classical epic stories, neither Zeus nor God
commands any of the heroic characters to kill civilians simply to
advance a story. Rather, Zeus and the Biblical God are Gods of Justice
for beggars and strangers--for the common man. It is the naive fanboy
God who rejoices in killing Civilians and hiring and killing
prostitutes, and thus, to date, games lack the sensibility of the
higher art that is found in Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, and
other classical, epic works, such as Sergio Leone's Fistful of
Dollars. [0978]He raised the importance on the part of the designer of
compelling the player to explore the depths of broad experiences like
The Sims or GTA4, saying such games need "clear alternate goal
structures that motivate the player to achieve in a variety of ways.
Make players aware of the possibility space." [0979]Gaming's perceived
emotional weaknesses relative to film are "misguided", he said. Games
do not have an inferior emotional palate, but "rather a different
one"--feelings such as pride, guilt, and accomplishment, which are
commonly felt when playing games, are not felt in the viewers of films
whose characters might experience those feelings. [0980]"The best
experiences are generative experiences," argued Wright, concluding his
well-received lecture at Krazy! "The best stories are player
stories."--http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=1-
8935

[0981]But games could be far greater, were the sense of accomplishment
to derive from a victory based on profound, epic ideas that had
consequences such as freedom and liberty, as opposed to a victory
based upon killing civilians, jacking cars, and hiring and killing
prostitutes. The free marketplace would reflect this, if games were
given half a chance, but the snarky, entrenched, pretentious industry
is about as open minded to games celebrating the same ideas as do the
Great Books and Classics as is Dave Eggers

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[0677]Many fanboys will scream at the words "history" and "morality,"
and they will cry that The Odyssey video game will not allow the
superior joys of killing prostitutes to get one's money back, jacking
cars, killing police men, slavery, child killing, drugs, and running
over civilians that GTA IV et al. provides. But they shall not be
disappointed, as at the very end, the player will be allowed to round
up his son Telemachus and a couple friends, and kill all the fanboy
suitors who laid Odysseus's wealth to waste, while trying to seduce
his noble wife, love, and queen; while Odysseus was off fighting for
his country, like so many Marines, while the fanboys sit at home
jacking cars and hiring and killing prostitutes for mere
entertainment. And then, so as not to exclude female fanboys and
grrrrl gamers; all the fanboys' whores will be called in to clean up
the mess in Odysseus's hall, just as they are in The Odyssey, and
after they have cleaned up the mess--all the fanboy blood and guts--
the option will be presented to have all the fanboy's whores taken out
and hung, just as they are in The Odyssey, as Odysseus delivers
justice to all those who tried to steal and claim his private
property. The difference between GTA/GOW/Fallout et al and the present
invention is that the present invention allows violence backed by
moral meaning--which is exactly what the fiatocracy's bankers who
funded GTA and feminism don't want; as they prefer a world in which
one can jack pensions, subprime loans, artistic creations, and
investments via subterfuge, saying one thing while holding in one's
heart another, and subtle crime, while confiscating savings via the
inflation tax, in Greenspan's words. So it is that the present
invention will be opposed on many levels, but woe to those who would
oppose the immortal soul of the rising generation and the Hero's
Journey Fellowship. For as Mark Twain stated, "one cannot pray a lie."

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg2DBEM6

[0733]In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus comes across the peaceful,
poetry-loving Phaecians while making his way on home on that original
hero's journey. Homer brilliantly exalts the nobility of making word
deed--of the difference between knowing the path and walking it--in a
play within a play, as Shakespeare does two thousand years later in
his greatest work--Hamlet. And today, too, too many people are content
to play meaningless video games, which is exactly the way the
fiatocracy wants it. The present invention would foster meaningful
games, which allow the player to defend classical ideals, such as that
found in the Constitution, in word and deed.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg3jqkQh

[0990]Imagine a videogame which let you play as Odysseus, which
rewarded you for heroic moral choices; and imagine a film based on the
game's technology. Imagine a game which brought the classical poetry
to life when you chose the correct dialogue tree; and in which you
played for higher stakes--your wife, queen, and love--faithful
Penelope. Imagine a game which let you fight for the spirit of the
Constitution and artist's rights. Imagine riding into town for that
third act, choosing to disguise yourself as a beggar--a man with no
name like Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars--as you observed the
imposter kings and managerial capitalists living off other's estates--
plundering savings and investments while dividing and destroying
families--and you came up with a plan to defeat them. Imagine
reuniting the family, rendering Justice, and walking away from the
gold at the end--as did Eastwood in Sergio Leone's masterpiece. That
would be one rockin' game--it would blow Grand Theft Auto out of the
water. Imagine a game which let you play as Dante as you trekked
through hell to be with Beatrice . . . and so we begin to see that all
action-adventure epics are ultimately love stories. From Braveheart,
to 300, to Gladiatior, to The Matrix, to A Fistful of Dollars, to the
American Revolution, to the trial and death of Socrates, to the
crucifixion of Jesus, the stakes of the showdown are always the same:
freedom, morality, the individual, romantic love, the classic family,
and Epic Soul facing down the king, tyrant, bureaucratic mob, decline,
PR hype, deceit, and the inevitable soul-killing decadence of the
corporate/state Matrix. Imagine films, games, and novels which raised
the stakes and saluted the battle for the Epic Soul--the very center
and circumference of civilization.

[0991]Well come ride with us--with Autumn and Ranger--with Adams and
Cicero--with Socrates and Jesus. Ride with us on out towards the
Renaissance; and I shall teach you how to surf the classics and open
source software on toward the infinite wealth found in following your
passions and dreams. And too, I shall teach you of the power of the
Gold 45 Revolver--the only gun that can prevail in that showdown
that's been a long time coming. It's time--it's time for us to head on
home and reclaim Penelope and our homes--our faith and family--our
love, our queens, and our wives--from the fiatocracy's false suitors.

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[0561]The present invention will also foster superior
educational games. Education, from Homer on down, has ever been about
morality and enlightenment. It is only in recent times, as the
fiatocracy rose to power, that moral education was exiled and
suppressed by those who wish to deconstruct the exalted Constitution,
Bill of Rights and soul and replace them with dumbed-down banality;
thusly enslaving all of entirety to the bottom line, where no longer
do women strive to serve their faith, their children, their family,
and the higher ideals; but only the gutted, dumbed-down bottom line
trumpeted by their MBA boss/pimp, like the ones in GTA.

[0562]Video game creators are under no obligation to forever reside in
Plato's cave. They are free to move beyond it and walk in the bright
sun of the Great Books and Classics, learn from the masters who set
eternity in words; and instill video games with that same classical
soul. Of course they will be laughed at, stoned, and persecuted by the
fiatocracy's fanboy media, but over time, they will prevail, and it is
exactly this kind of story and osul that games need. When they have
manned up and walked the walk--the Hero's Journey--in real life,
perhaps then they shall be able to walk the Hero's Journey in creating
games with deeper soul and story; and more exalted gameplay features.

[0563]Opportunities exist to create novel educational video games
embodying classical ideals. The service of classic ideals will endow
video games with far more realistic and meaningful worlds, greater
emotional and spiritual immersion, epic storytelling, and more
engaging gameplay; just as the service of classic ideals exalted The
Iliad, The Odyssey, The Declaration of Independence, the American
Founding, and the Constitution, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible.
Embracing classical precepts will allow us to create a more exalted
realm of games with classical soul. Expert opinion will violently
oppose these new video games, as most fanboy game creators consider
themselves superior directors to Sergio Leone and John Ford, superior
artists to da Vinic and Michelangelo and William Blake, and superior
writers to Shakespeare, Melville, Homer, and Jefferson. The fanboys
hath made their ignorance their arrogance, their mediocrity their
salvation, and their hatred for women and classical soul their video
games; and they are celebrated by the fiat-funded media, government,
and university system. Such are the fleeting joys and short-winded
elations of fiat empires, where the truth must come to and end and
where the worst rise to the top, along the road to Serfdom, which is
yet sold as a free market, even though the currency--that which buys
and controls the entire market--is controlled by a private cartel that
has enlisted hundreds of thousands of the most pernicious soldiers--in
the form of fanboys, fiat philosophers, and feminists--who will kill
the unborn as fast as they kill prostitutes in GTA; but will never
lift a single finger to fight for the exalted US Constitution. The
present invention would afford games that allowed one to fight for the
Constitution.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg7YDISg

"NO COMPELLING VIDEO GAME NARRATIVE WAS EVER MADE BY A WRITER WHO HAD
HIS GUTS CLENCHED UP IN FEAR.  AS WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE,
HEROIC BRAVERY
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ) IS WHAT IS
NEEDED." --Kyle B. Stiff, --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by
Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

"But the stuffed suits refused to budge an inch regarding their policy
of not working with creative script writers who have the backbone to
take risks.  Instead, they stand ready to declare yet another "death
of storytelling" in video gaming." --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF
HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

After video games were relegated to something to do while stuck
in traffic, the Anti-story movement became lax  A game called THE
ODYSSEY was made.  It was marketed as an educational tool, something
to help high school kids understand the ancient literature; a
necessary ruse to have a story-driven game green-lit.  It was about
Odysseus and his long journey home from the Trojan War.  The gods
opposed him and he had to fight a horde of misshapen beasts using
brute strength and nauseatingly violent finishing moves.  There were
tactical elements as well, as Odysseus had a crew of goons to back him
up.  And role-playing dialogue too, in which the player controlled
Penelope, Odysseus's wife, as she devised plots to delay a horde of
suitors from claiming her husband's estate.... Damn, we loved it!  The
final scene was vilified in mainstream news because, just as in the
original tale, Odysseus and his son round up Penelope's unhelpful
servants, take them behind some building, and slaughter them.  ... But
we didn't love the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because
it made us feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey
towards a goal rather than slogging from one day to the next. --page
111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE,
NOVEMBER, 2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-
evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

(EXALTING THE MEANINGFUL HERO'S JOURNEY!("But we didn't love
the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because it made us
feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey towards a
goal."--Kyle B. Stiff, 11/2009))[1790]The basic concepts and ideas in
this invention will have far-ranging implications for the realm of
video games, for the greater culture, novel video games, greater
commercial opportunities in the realm of games, greater and enhanced
opportunities in merging games with film and literature, greater
opportunities for games with deep and profound souls and storytelling,
and new opportunities for games with vast educational potential. The
ideas and embodiments described herein may be modified, extended, and
improvised upon in countless ways. The present invention can bring
both the external hero's journey, that Moses and Odysseus traveled, as
well as the internal hero's journey, that Jesus and Socrates walked.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg8hzBRt

4. System and Method for Female Video Game Characters With Soul and
Virtue and Male Characters With Soul and Virtue:

[1622]Imagine video games that presented female characters with the
depth of soul and spirit owned by classical characters such as
Penelope, Beatrice, Mary Magdelane, the Virgin Mary, and The Mona
Lisa.

[1623]Having female characters behave and act morally, while others
don't, would provide a novel form of gameplay. For instance, in the
Odyssey, Agamemnon's wife cheats on him, and the man she takes in ends
up killing Agamemnon. This is contrasted to Penelope, who remains
faithful throughout, thusly ensuring that Odysseus's life and home are
preserved. So it is that in this novel form of video games, women will
be shown on both sides of the moral premise, and not only that, but
their moral choices will be fundamental to the eventual victory or
defeat.

[1624]Opportunities abound for deeper, more profound female
characters, as fanboys such as Cliffyb and Wyckyg are yet focusing on
breasts, as Wired reports: [1625]"Speaking to Wired.com at Microsoft's
recent media event, the designer (above left) says that Epic Games is
trying to make their upcoming Xbox 360 shooter more appealing to the
casual audience. The game's female characters, he said, won't have
"ginormous tits." And the lauded kill-alien-swarms-with-a-buddy
cooperative mode will let you adjust the game's difficulty on the fly
depending on who's playing. How do you make a game girlfriend-
friendly? You do jump-in, jump-out co-op. You have configurable
difficulty settings for the other player. You have very cool and bad-
ass main characters that have a very human side. And you make sure
that the female characters in your game don't have ginormous tits and
aren't bad stereotypes. What are the female characters in Gears 2
like? I've always made sure, working with the art department, that
Anya is strong-willed but also very mother-like to the squad. She has
a very modest chest and doesn't look like some sort of heavy metal
movie fantasy."--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/cliffy-b-
gears.html

[1626]Well, that is vast and resounding progress. Boobs are mentioned
three times in the above passage, although nobody mentions the vast
importance of the moral woman's character in the realm of classical,
epic storytelling. No gaming expert has yet ever suggested that the
ultimate woman character in a video game ought behave morally, like
Penelope. In our dumbed-down, spectacle-driven society, morality is
seen as a bad thing--the exact antithesis to art. And so the best the
fanboys can do is make the in-game character's breast-size smaller.
There is no mention of making them faithful, nor having them speak
intelligently, nor making them weave and unweave a tapestry, as does
Penelope, to keep the suitors at bay, while waiting faithfully for
Odysseus. So it is that games have yet to achieve higher, classical,
epic art. And so it is that this patent, by instilling deep ideas and
ideals within the game's context and AI, will allow for superior
gameplay.

[1627]Female Characters with Soul and Virtue: Every year Play Magazine
publishes its Girls of Gaming collection which states athttp://playmagazine.com/thegirlsofgaming/index.html, Girls of Gaming
Vol. 5 "is jam packed with hotness from every corner of the gaming
universe and when you sign up to go digital you'll get our 20-page
Best-Of Girls of Gaming absolutely free, along with bonus mature
content too hot for print. The print edition is something special as
well, featuring embossed, spot varnished covers and top quality
materials." Year after year Play Magazine publishes this work, and
year after year the industry creates games; but they are missing soul
on both the masculine and feminine levels. A game that showed a
character being seduced, but resisting, as did Penelope in The
Odyssey, could enhance game play by inspiring and exalting the main
character to make it on home. Imagine cut-scenes that showed women
reading exalted poetry, or lines from Shakespeare' plays, representing
virtues. They could be contrasted to evil women and temptresses
throughout literature. [1628]1. Imagine cut scenes that showed women
acting with virtue to inspire the player to make it on home. For
instance, seeing Penelope behaving virtuously and resisting the
suitors could inspire the player to make it on back to the damsel in
distress. [1629]2. Imagine cut-scenes that showed men acting with
virtue to inspire the female in-game-character to also act virtuous.
For instance imagine a character of Penelope witnessing Odysseus's
resistance of the Sirens, or his other noble actions and refusals of
temptations.

[1630]If a player were playing as Penelope, and they did not act
morally and took on a suitor as Husband, the suitor would kill her
husband when she got home, as happened with Agamemnon. Thus moral
actions would have moral consequences; and immoral actions would have
immoral consequences.

[1631]A game such as GTA could be enhanced by allowing the player to
shoot the pimp and save the women/prostitutes, telling the women to
sin no more.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg1XASLw

[1774]FIG. 5 illustrates how the present invention may be used to
bring the great books and classics alive in a dialogue and action
tree, wherein ideas have consequences. The present invention may
father future inventions which treat this fundamental, basic concept
in far more detail. The player (500) would reach a plot point in
Homer's Odyssey (501). The player would then have to make a choice of
what to say/do. By choosing Odysseus's words and/or his actions (504),
such as telling his men to tie him to the mast, the player is rewarded
with the exalted plot of the Odyssey as they are taken closer to
winning their home and Penelope, and they get to encounter the next
plot point ...

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"NO COMPELLING VIDEO GAME NARRATIVE WAS EVER MADE BY A WRITER WHO HAD
HIS GUTS CLENCHED UP IN FEAR. AS WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE,
HEROIC BRAVERY
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ) IS WHAT IS
NEEDED." --Kyle B. Stiff, --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by
Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

"But the stuffed suits refused to budge an inch regarding their policy
of not working with creative script writers who have the backbone to
take risks. Instead, they stand ready to declare yet another "death
of storytelling" in video gaming." --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF
HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

Basically this article could be applied to the entire industry
which is shedding billions in market cap and thousands of jobs.

Over the past several years, I would pick up major gaming magazines
(EGM/Play/Edge) and turn straight to the letters section--the letters
from the readers/avid gamers.

Invariably, there would be writers stating that they were looking for
games with more exalted narrative, epic story, and meaning.

And the fanboy/fanmba editorial staff would often be both
condescending and dismissive, basically giving them the middle finger
in telling them to shut up and go back to their single-mom's basement
to play Fallout/GTA and shoot cops and hookers and women in metallic
bras, as really, GTA is all about the family, really, and living
morally, with profound ideas that have profound consequences; and
epic, exalted meanings for the greater culture.

And then, a few short months later, after giving the finger to the
reader/consumer/yearner for art and narrative, EGM went under.

CASE STUDY #1: The Epic Failure of Dante's Inferno: The Epic Price of
Ignoring Epic Story and Placing Dante's Beloved, Incorruptible
Beatrice in Hell, and Playing up the Giant Nipples/Vaginas/Baby-
Killing for The Vocal Fanboys

Okay. I understand that the Dante's Inferno videogame has very
little to do with the classic literature. As a English lit nerd, I
don't like it, but I understand it. So rather than bitch about that,
I'll bitch about how Dante's Inferno looks like hell's biggest God of
War rip-off. Okay, there are certainly worse games to rip off, but I
swear Dante has the exact same attacks as Kratos, except when the
swishes stop, he's holding a scythe instead of Kratos' ridiculous yo-
yo blades...

....oh.

You're probably more upset about the giant lady who shoots demon
babies out of her nipples or the other evil lady with the vagina on
her stomach with its own hideous tongue tentacle, aren't you? Yeah,
those are bad too.

"NO COMPELLING VIDEO GAME NARRATIVE WAS EVER MADE BY A WRITER WHO HAD
HIS GUTS CLENCHED UP IN FEAR.  AS WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE,
HEROIC BRAVERY
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ) IS WHAT IS
NEEDED." --Kyle B. Stiff, --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by
Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

"But the stuffed suits refused to budge an inch regarding their policy
of not working with creative script writers who have the backbone to
take risks.  Instead, they stand ready to declare yet another "death
of storytelling" in video gaming." --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF
HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

After video games were relegated to something to do while stuck
in traffic, the Anti-story movement became lax  A game called THE
ODYSSEY was made.  It was marketed as an educational tool, something
to help high school kids understand the ancient literature; a
necessary ruse to have a story-driven game green-lit.  It was about
Odysseus and his long journey home from the Trojan War.  The gods
opposed him and he had to fight a horde of misshapen beasts using
brute strength and nauseatingly violent finishing moves.  There were
tactical elements as well, as Odysseus had a crew of goons to back him
up.  And role-playing dialogue too, in which the player controlled
Penelope, Odysseus's wife, as she devised plots to delay a horde of
suitors from claiming her husband's estate.... Damn, we loved it!  The
final scene was vilified in mainstream news because, just as in the
original tale, Odysseus and his son round up Penelope's unhelpful
servants, take them behind some building, and slaughter them.  ... But
we didn't love the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because
it made us feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey
towards a goal rather than slogging from one day to the next. --page
111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE,
NOVEMBER, 2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed..
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-
evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

(EXALTING THE MEANINGFUL HERO'S JOURNEY!("But we didn't love
the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because it made us
feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey towards a
goal."--Kyle B. Stiff, 11/2009))[1790]The basic concepts and ideas in
this invention will have far-ranging implications for the realm of
video games, for the greater culture, novel video games, greater
commercial opportunities in the realm of games, greater and enhanced
opportunities in merging games with film and literature, greater
opportunities for games with deep and profound souls and storytelling,
and new opportunities for games with vast educational potential. The
ideas and embodiments described herein may be modified, extended, and
improvised upon in countless ways. The present invention can bring
both the external hero's journey, that Moses and Odysseus traveled, as
well as the internal hero's journey, that Jesus and Socrates walked.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg8hzBRt

4. System and Method for Female Video Game Characters With Soul and
Virtue and Male Characters With Soul and Virtue:

[1622]Imagine video games that presented female characters with the
depth of soul and spirit owned by classical characters such as
Penelope, Beatrice, Mary Magdelane, the Virgin Mary, and The Mona
Lisa.

[1623]Having female characters behave and act morally, while others
don't, would provide a novel form of gameplay. For instance, in the
Odyssey, Agamemnon's wife cheats on him, and the man she takes in ends
up killing Agamemnon. This is contrasted to Penelope, who remains
faithful throughout, thusly ensuring that Odysseus's life and home are
preserved. So it is that in this novel form of video games, women will
be shown on both sides of the moral premise, and not only that, but
their moral choices will be fundamental to the eventual victory or
defeat.

[1624]Opportunities abound for deeper, more profound female
characters, as fanboys such as Cliffyb and Wyckyg are yet focusing on
breasts, as Wired reports: [1625]"Speaking to Wired.com at Microsoft's
recent media event, the designer (above left) says that Epic Games is
trying to make their upcoming Xbox 360 shooter more appealing to the
casual audience. The game's female characters, he said, won't have
"ginormous tits." And the lauded kill-alien-swarms-with-a-buddy
cooperative mode will let you adjust the game's difficulty on the fly
depending on who's playing. How do you make a game girlfriend-
friendly? You do jump-in, jump-out co-op. You have configurable
difficulty settings for the other player. You have very cool and bad-
ass main characters that have a very human side. And you make sure
that the female characters in your game don't have ginormous tits and
aren't bad stereotypes. What are the female characters in Gears 2
like? I've always made sure, working with the art department, that
Anya is strong-willed but also very mother-like to the squad. She has
a very modest chest and doesn't look like some sort of heavy metal
movie fantasy."--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/cliffy-b-
gears.html

[1626]Well, that is vast and resounding progress. Boobs are mentioned
three times in the above passage, although nobody mentions the vast
importance of the moral woman's character in the realm of classical,
epic storytelling. No gaming expert has yet ever suggested that the
ultimate woman character in a video game ought behave morally, like
Penelope. In our dumbed-down, spectacle-driven society, morality is
seen as a bad thing--the exact antithesis to art. And so the best the
fanboys can do is make the in-game character's breast-size smaller.
There is no mention of making them faithful, nor having them speak
intelligently, nor making them weave and unweave a tapestry, as does
Penelope, to keep the suitors at bay, while waiting faithfully for
Odysseus. So it is that games have yet to achieve higher, classical,
epic art. And so it is that this patent, by instilling deep ideas and
ideals within the game's context and AI, will allow for superior
gameplay.

[1627]Female Characters with Soul and Virtue: Every year Play Magazine
publishes its Girls of Gaming collection which states athttp://playmagazine.com/thegirlsofgaming/index.html, Girls of Gaming
Vol. 5 "is jam packed with hotness from every corner of the gaming
universe and when you sign up to go digital you'll get our 20-page
Best-Of Girls of Gaming absolutely free, along with bonus mature
content too hot for print. The print edition is something special as
well, featuring embossed, spot varnished covers and top quality
materials." Year after year Play Magazine publishes this work, and
year after year the industry creates games; but they are missing soul
on both the masculine and feminine levels. A game that showed a
character being seduced, but resisting, as did Penelope in The
Odyssey, could enhance game play by inspiring and exalting the main
character to make it on home. Imagine cut-scenes that showed women
reading exalted poetry, or lines from Shakespeare' plays, representing
virtues. They could be contrasted to evil women and temptresses
throughout literature. [1628]1. Imagine cut scenes that showed women
acting with virtue to inspire the player to make it on home. For
instance, seeing Penelope behaving virtuously and resisting the
suitors could inspire the player to make it on back to the damsel in
distress. [1629]2. Imagine cut-scenes that showed men acting with
virtue to inspire the female in-game-character to also act virtuous.
For instance imagine a character of Penelope witnessing Odysseus's
resistance of the Sirens, or his other noble actions and refusals of
temptations.

[1630]If a player were playing as Penelope, and they did not act
morally and took on a suitor as Husband, the suitor would kill her
husband when she got home, as happened with Agamemnon. Thus moral
actions would have moral consequences; and immoral actions would have
immoral consequences.

[1631]A game such as GTA could be enhanced by allowing the player to
shoot the pimp and save the women/prostitutes, telling the women to
sin no more.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg1XASLw

[1774]FIG. 5 illustrates how the present invention may be used to
bring the great books and classics alive in a dialogue and action
tree, wherein ideas have consequences. The present invention may
father future inventions which treat this fundamental, basic concept
in far more detail. The

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Those who work in certain popular forms like music, film, and
literature often reflect on how a particular work was born out of a
specific event. "I had to write this book when my girlfriend dumped
me," a novelist might say.

"That doesn't show up often in game development bios," Hecker pointed
out. Developers rarely discuss what they were trying to convey or
express with a particular game, outside the confines of the game's own
entertainment value.

"Should we care about 'why'? I think the answer is yes. We should
care," said Hecker. But why care about 'why'? Hecker sees three main
routes popular culture can travel, and games are in grave danger of
ending up on the wrong one, the consequences of which could put the
medium permanently in the cultural doghouse, rather than in the
vaunted halls of cultural relevance.

"If we continue on our current path, we'll end up in the pop cultural
ghetto where comics are," he said. "An alternative path is where film,
books, and music ended up. There's even a low road, toys -- or, as you
hear, 'just toys' -- where you cease to have any meaning beyond what
you're playing with."

Stevan Zivadinovic
13 Nov 2009 at 7:20 pm PST
What is wrong with you people? Why do you always react to these
kinds of ruminations with all this vitriol? If you don't want to
participate, go somewhere else, for the love of fuck. It is as if you
are personally invested in games being as vapid as possible at all
costs, as if letting others think about doing something more with
games is some sort of an affront to all you hold dear.

D: --http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26077

What Next?

Like literature, music, film, and other forms, games offer their own
intrinsic element to add to culture. For games, it's interactivity.
That uniqueness is necessary for a form to carve out its own cultural
space, and it's what will allow games to occupy such a space if the
gaming community doesn't wall it off.

But that means designers must strive to convey some kind of "why," and
when they do, it will ideally be conveyed through interactivity, not
just cutscenes. Linear "theme park ride" games, as Hecker calls them
-- recently, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, et
al. -- can be great fun, and we have become quite skilled at making
them, but they also represent something of a creative red herring:
"The part that speaks to the human condition is in the cutscenes, not
in the interactivity."

"NO COMPELLING VIDEO GAME NARRATIVE WAS EVER MADE BY A WRITER WHO HAD
HIS GUTS CLENCHED UP IN FEAR.  AS WITH A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE,
HEROIC BRAVERY
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ) IS WHAT IS
NEEDED." --Kyle B. Stiff, --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by
Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

"But the stuffed suits refused to budge an inch regarding their policy
of not working with creative script writers who have the backbone to
take risks.  Instead, they stand ready to declare yet another "death
of storytelling" in video gaming." --page 111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF
HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER, 2009

After video games were relegated to something to do while stuck
in traffic, the Anti-story movement became lax  A game called THE
ODYSSEY was made.  It was marketed as an educational tool, something
to help high school kids understand the ancient literature; a
necessary ruse to have a story-driven game green-lit.  It was about
Odysseus and his long journey home from the Trojan War.  The gods
opposed him and he had to fight a horde of misshapen beasts using
brute strength and nauseatingly violent finishing moves.  There were
tactical elements as well, as Odysseus had a crew of goons to back him
up.  And role-playing dialogue too, in which the player controlled
Penelope, Odysseus's wife, as she devised plots to delay a horde of
suitors from claiming her husband's estate.... Damn, we loved it!  The
final scene was vilified in mainstream news because, just as in the
original tale, Odysseus and his son round up Penelope's unhelpful
servants, take them behind some building, and slaughter them.  ... But
we didn't love the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because
it made us feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey
towards a goal rather than slogging from one day to the next. --page
111: I WANT THE BLOOD OF HEROES, by Kyle B. Stiff, PLAY MAGAZINE,
NOVEMBER, 2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-
evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

(EXALTING THE MEANINGFUL HERO'S JOURNEY!("But we didn't love
the Odyssey because it was violent, we loved it because it made us
feel powerful, heroic, like we were on a meaningful journey towards a
goal."--Kyle B. Stiff, 11/2009))[1790]The basic concepts and ideas in
this invention will have far-ranging implications for the realm of
video games, for the greater culture, novel video games, greater
commercial opportunities in the realm of games, greater and enhanced
opportunities in merging games with film and literature, greater
opportunities for games with deep and profound souls and storytelling,
and new opportunities for games with vast educational potential. The
ideas and embodiments described herein may be modified, extended, and
improvised upon in countless ways. The present invention can bring
both the external hero's journey, that Moses and Odysseus traveled, as
well as the internal hero's journey, that Jesus and Socrates walked.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg8hzBRt

4. System and Method for Female Video Game Characters With Soul and
Virtue and Male Characters With Soul and Virtue:

[1622]Imagine video games that presented female characters with the
depth of soul and spirit owned by classical characters such as
Penelope, Beatrice, Mary Magdelane, the Virgin Mary, and The Mona
Lisa.

[1623]Having female characters behave and act morally, while others
don't, would provide a novel form of gameplay. For instance, in the
Odyssey, Agamemnon's wife cheats on him, and the man she takes in ends
up killing Agamemnon. This is contrasted to Penelope, who remains
faithful throughout, thusly ensuring that Odysseus's life and home are
preserved. So it is that in this novel form of video games, women will
be shown on both sides of the moral premise, and not only that, but
their moral choices will be fundamental to the eventual victory or
defeat.

[1624]Opportunities abound for deeper, more profound female
characters, as fanboys such as Cliffyb and Wyckyg are yet focusing on
breasts, as Wired reports: [1625]"Speaking to Wired.com at Microsoft's
recent media event, the designer (above left) says that Epic Games is
trying to make their upcoming Xbox 360 shooter more appealing to the
casual audience. The game's female characters, he said, won't have
"ginormous tits." And the lauded kill-alien-swarms-with-a-buddy
cooperative mode will let you adjust the game's difficulty on the fly
depending on who's playing. How do you make a game girlfriend-
friendly? You do jump-in, jump-out co-op. You have configurable
difficulty settings for the other player. You have very cool and bad-
ass main characters that have a very human side. And you make sure
that the female characters in your game don't have ginormous tits and
aren't bad stereotypes. What are the female characters in Gears 2
like? I've always made sure, working with the art department, that
Anya is strong-willed but also very mother-like to the squad. She has
a very modest chest and doesn't look like some sort of heavy metal
movie fantasy."--http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/cliffy-b-
gears.html

[1626]Well, that is vast and resounding progress. Boobs are mentioned
three times in the above passage, although nobody mentions the vast
importance of the moral woman's character in the realm of classical,
epic storytelling. No gaming expert has yet ever suggested that the
ultimate woman character in a video game ought behave morally, like
Penelope. In our dumbed-down, spectacle-driven society, morality is
seen as a bad thing--the exact antithesis to art. And so the best the
fanboys can do is make the in-game character's breast-size smaller.
There is no mention of making them faithful, nor having them speak
intelligently, nor making them weave and unweave a tapestry, as does
Penelope, to keep the suitors at bay, while waiting faithfully for
Odysseus. So it is that games have yet to achieve higher, classical,
epic art. And so it is that this patent, by instilling deep ideas and
ideals within the game's context and AI, will allow for superior
gameplay.

[1627]Female Characters with Soul and Virtue: Every year Play Magazine
publishes its Girls of Gaming collection which states athttp://playmagazine.com/thegirlsofgaming/index.html, Girls of Gaming
Vol. 5 "is jam packed with hotness from every corner of the gaming
universe and when you sign up to go digital you'll get our 20-page
Best-Of Girls of Gaming absolutely free, along with bonus mature
content too hot for print. The print edition is something special as
well, featuring embossed, spot varnished covers and top quality
materials." Year after year Play Magazine publishes this work, and
year after year the industry creates games; but they are missing soul
on both the masculine and feminine levels. A game that showed a
character being seduced, but resisting, as did Penelope in The
Odyssey, could enhance game play by inspiring and exalting the main
character to make it on home. Imagine cut-scenes that showed women
reading exalted poetry, or lines from Shakespeare' plays, representing
virtues. They could be contrasted to evil women and temptresses
throughout literature. [1628]1. Imagine cut scenes that showed women
acting with virtue to inspire the player to make it on home. For
instance, seeing Penelope behaving virtuously and resisting the
suitors could inspire the player to make it on back to the damsel in
distress. [1629]2. Imagine cut-scenes that showed men acting with
virtue to inspire the female in-game-character to also act virtuous.
For instance imagine a character of Penelope witnessing Odysseus's
resistance of the Sirens, or his other noble actions and refusals of
temptations.

[1630]If a player were playing as Penelope, and they did not act
morally and took on a suitor as Husband, the suitor would kill her
husband when she got home, as happened with Agamemnon. Thus moral
actions would have moral consequences; and immoral actions would have
immoral consequences.

[1631]A game such as GTA could be enhanced by allowing the player to
shoot the pimp and save the women/prostitutes, telling the women to
sin no more.

Read more:http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886#ixzz0Wg1XASLw

[1774]FIG. 5 illustrates how the present invention may be used to
bring the great books and classics alive in a dialogue and action
tree, wherein ideas have consequences. The present invention may
father future inventions which treat this fundamental, basic concept
in far more detail. The player (500) would reach a plot point in
Homer's Odyssey (501). The player would then have to make a choice of
what to say/do. By choosing Odysseus's words and/or his actions (504),
such as telling his men to tie him to the mast, the player is rewarded
with the exalted plot of the Odyssey as they are taken closer to
winning their home and Penelope, and they get to encounter the next
plot point ...

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Those who work in certain popular forms like music, film, and
literature often reflect on how a particular work was born out of a
specific event. "I had to write this book when my girlfriend dumped
me," a novelist might say.

"That doesn't show up often in game development bios," Hecker pointed
out. Developers rarely discuss what they were trying to convey or
express with a particular game, outside the confines of the game's own
entertainment value.

"Should we care about 'why'? I think the answer is yes. We should
care," said Hecker. But why care about 'why'? Hecker sees three main
routes popular culture can travel, and games are in grave danger of
ending up on the wrong one, the consequences of which could put the
medium permanently in the cultural doghouse, rather than in the
vaunted halls of cultural relevance.

"If we continue on our current path, we'll end up in the pop cultural
ghetto where comics are," he said. "An alternative path is where film,
books, and music ended up. There's even a low road, toys -- or, as you
hear, 'just toys' -- where you cease to have any meaning beyond what
you're playing with."

Stevan Zivadinovic
13 Nov 2009 at 7:20 pm PST
What is wrong with you people? Why do you always react to these
kinds of ruminations with all this vitriol? If you don't want to
participate, go somewhere else, for the love of fuck. It is as if you
are personally invested in games being as vapid as possible at all
costs, as if letting others think about doing something more with
games is some sort of an affront to all you hold dear.

D: --http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26077

What Next?

Like literature, music, film, and other forms, games offer their own
intrinsic element to add to culture. For games, it's interactivity.
That uniqueness is necessary for a form to carve out its own cultural
space, and it's what will allow games to occupy such a space if the
gaming community doesn't wall it off.

But that means designers must strive to convey some kind of "why," and
when they do, it will ideally be conveyed through interactivity, not
just cutscenes. Linear "theme park ride" games, as Hecker calls them
-- recently, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, et
al. -- can be great fun, and we have become quite skilled at making
them, but they also represent something of a creative red herring:
"The part that speaks to the human condition is in the cutscenes, not
in the interactivity."

    As I begin preproduction on a pretty narrative-based game, I find
myself referring to Steve Gaynor's quote:

    [url]Video games are not a traditional storytelling medium per se..
The player is an agent of chaos, making the medium ill-equipped to
convey a pre-authored narrative with anywhere near the effectiveness
of books or film.[/url]

Yes--such philosophies have held games back.

In real life, we are all agents of chaos.

And yet, epic, exalted stories emerge time and again in real life,
because of life's moral premises and epic mythological reality, which
are strangely absent from games. Truth is stranger than fiction!

Think about the true story of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans
battling for epic idealism and freedom.

Think about Sir William Wallace battling for freedom and epic
idealism.

Think about the Founding Fathers writing for and then battling for
epic freedom--rendering classical ideals real in both word and deed.

In all the above cases; epic, classical story emerged alongside
romance and profound meaning. Narratives far greater and more engaging
than those found in GTA/bioshock/Fallout naturally emerged, and became
legends as they were told over and over.

The stories today's fanboys tell are, "I killed a hooker lolz! and
then pwn3d giant vaginas and nipples in dante's inferno ! lolz!! epic
narrative sux and boox r giant walls of t3xt!" And then the fanbmas
tell tragic stories of massive layoffs and the closure of EGM which
gave that vast contingent seeking epic story the middle finger.

300/William Wallace/the Founding Fathers were united by the same
classical, epic, exalted ideals of freedom; which are nowhere to be
found in the fanboys/fanmbas favorite games--Fallout & GTA3.

By introducing classical ideals (thegold45 revolver(TM)/ideas have
consequences/moral premise technologies) into the center and
circumference of the game's AI, novel forms of gaming will exalt the
industry with billions of dollars in revenue.

As games get more and more graphically realistic, why not make them
more life-like on a spiritual, narrative, moral, and romantic level?

Basically this article could be applied to the entire industry which
is shedding billions in market cap and thousands of jobs.

Over the past several years, I would pick up major gaming magazines
(EGM/Play/Edge) and turn straight to the letters section--the letters
from the readers/avid gamers.

Invariably, there would be writers stating that they were looking for
games with more exalted narrative, epic story, and meaning.

And the fanboy/fanmba editorial staff would often be both
condescending and dismissive, basically giving them the middle finger
in telling them to shut up and go back to their single-mom's basement
to play Fallout/GTA and shoot cops and hookers and women in metallic
bras, as really, GTA is all about the family, really, and living
morally, with profound ideas that have profound consequences; and
epic, exalted meanings for the greater culture.

And then, a few short months later, after giving the finger to the
reader/consumer/yearner for art and narrative, EGM went under.

CASE STUDY #1: The Epic Failure of Dante's Inferno: The Epic Price of
Ignoring Epic Story and Placing Dante's Beloved, Incorruptible
Beatrice in Hell, and Playing up the Giant Nipples/Vaginas/Baby-
Killing for The Vocal Fanboys

In one fell-swoop, EA blew several opportunities to exalt both
classical culture and their bottom line. Mired in the "debauch the
culture/currency and deconstruct the Greats" that so dominates our
culture, EA approached Dante's Divine Comedy from a hateful, arrogant,
fanboyish angle; instead of from a loving, manly, humble one.

So EA goes and slaps the name Dante's Inferno on a God of War Mod,
basically giving the middle finger to Dante's art, life, love, poetry,
religion, soul, and spirit, casting his beloved, incorruptible
Beatrcie in hell, and recasting Dante the poet and scholar as a buff,
world-wrestling-federation champion. And this is the result--a quickly
forgettable #eafailsuck, generic, been-there-done-that-but-better-the-
first-time-around game:

http://www.gamersdailynews.com/article-... ferno.html

    What can be said for Dante’s Inferno? Well, it is definitely a
complete rip-off of God of War, so it has that going for it. Oh, and
it probably would have been better just to have made the game about a
random crusader diving through the many layers of Hell and claiming
inspiration to the literary classic. Now it just enrages anyone with
an appreciation for those long forgotten “book” things your ancestors
used to read. You know, back when paper was used by everyone and not
just bureaucrats behind the times.

    Truth be told the game wasn’t really all that thrilling. In fact,
it was a little bit irritating and just a tad sickening. A number of
buttons can be used for different attacks, yet somehow I always found
myself pulling off the same combo that ended with me stabbing into the
ground with a bone scythe. It felt like the only way to win was to
simply button mash without any real plan in mind. . . .

    . . .The combat to Dante’s Inferno isn’t terrible, but it isn’t
great either. It’s just another action game trying to be God of War.
The story may be good if you could care less about the literary
origins. The artwork goes from being generic to outright disturbing
and disgusting. EA can use as much controversial marketing tactics as
they wish, but there is a very small audience for this game. It will
have its fans, most certainly, but weeks after this game has been
released it will become forgotten.

    Thank God.

--http://www.gamersdailynews.com/article-2169-HandsOn-with-Dantes-
Inferno.html

All those hours, upon hours wasted in debauching art and losing EA's
investor's cash. All those hours, upon hours spent ignoring the story
and focusing on mere, fleeting marketing gimmicks, placing Aristotle's
spectacle first and his story dead last, thusly inverting the order of
Aristotle's Poetics, and harassing booth babes:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliot... w_Gold.php

I reached out to Jonathan Knight regarding how theGold45 Revolver /
Ideas Have Consequences / Moral Premise technologies could exalt not
only Dante's Inferno, but his entire company, but he was pre-dedicated
to debauching Dante's Divine Work, ignoring the fundamental precepts
of the divine, epic narrative, and losing market cap.

And that's where the epic advantage lies. In all their epic EA
arrogance they are forgetting that which matters most in art--the soul
and spirit, and thus story.

CASE STUDY # 2: EGM MAGAZINE'S FAIL

What an opportunity EGM had! When they received letters from readers
demanding profundity, poetry, and epic meaning in their games, they
could have run with it! They could have become the flagship
publication of the renaissance, while rallying game companies and
developers who exalted epic narrative in their games, carving out a
vast new market for games! If only!

But instead, because EGM magazine gave the exalted consumer the middle
finger, they are now defunct. EA's fanboyish/fanmbaish Dante's Inferno
is taking EA down the same EGM road to financial hell, giant vaginas,
nipples, and babby killing all. But that's what you get for placing
Beatrice in Hell.

I predicted this in my patent application, citing EGM's flippant,
arrogant, fanboyish response to an honest gamer seeking exaltation,
story, enlightenment in their games. What did they do? EGM told him to
shut up and go back to his mom's basement and play GTA.

FROM:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0017886.html

PRIOR ART AND ADVANTAGES OF PRESENT INVENTION
There is a vast demand for deeper, more intellectual video games that
is generally opposed throughout the industry. Many designers are weak
minded like the Storm Troopers in Star Wars, and thus they believe
hiring and killing prostitutes constitutes exalted story, as the
fiatocracy's Death Star commands them to believe. Many will defend
their hiring and killing prostitutes by the fact that one doesn't have
to in the open-ended world, but then it GTA is not truly an open-ended
world wherein one cannot take a prostitute to church, nor even speak
words of exalted wisdom to her that might save her soul, nor give her
a copy of Dante's Inferno nor Homer's Odyssey to exalt her soul. While
developers, publishers, and insiders constantly hype the storytelling
in games so as to sound cool and push product for mere monetary
profit, the young can see that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In
EGM's letter of the month, a reader expresses the rising generation's
demand by writing:

EGM Letter of The Month:

“As I grew up, videogames grew up with me. I started playing games
like Donkey Kong and Carnival on the ColecoVision before I could read,
and Nintendo's Mario title were a staple of my early childhood. As I
got older, I saw the storytlines and gameplay mechanics become more
intricate and engaging. When I went through my rebellious and bitchy
teenage years, so did videogames. And as I grew and matured, so did
the subject matter of the games themselves.

Now that I'm 22, more things are vying for my time and attention such
as work, college, women, drinking, and lamenting over my long-gone and
simpler childhood. Needless to say, if I'm going to devote 20-plus
hours of my life to completing a game, it had better be well worth it.
And to me personally, a game well worth it is one I can take something
away from on an intellectual level. For example, a game that makes me
question my own existence, or the war in Iraq, or the increasing
diconnectedness of our modern high-tech lives would be the holy grail
of gaming to me. What are the chances that gaming will finally grow
once more and develop a social and political conscience?—Eric
Staskiewicz, summer, 2008 EGM

EGM answers “The answers are pretty damn good. Games are more and more
frequently making “statements” about society and ...

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