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Video games are the ultimate artistic medium, from a maximalist's perspective. They are interactive to an extent that pausing a film or rubbing your finger over a painting can't compete with, and on top of that they are able to incorporate visual and literary storytelling as well as music and audio modification. Truly great.

Now from a minimalist's perspective this is also okay. Video games can be minimalistic as fuck.

Look basically what I'm trying to do here is design a mythology for the 21st century. No, the 22nd century. 23rd. A mythology of the future. A mythology that can exist within any artistic medium that can include any narrative or context. The problem is this just isn't fucking possible, but I can break that with the power of the unknown, of uncertainty.

The reason it isn't (or rather shouldn't be) possible is because you can't have a mythology that is both monotheistic and polytheistic, one that includes the afterlife and also doesn't, one where certain philosophical questions have answers and also don't, and also have different answers, and also don't.

OR CAN YOU?

With video games, the player does most of the work. One's experience with a film is also more their experience than the film's, but with video games this is just more that.

A mythology can echo the open-ended open-for-debate nature of reality or whatever by providing different answers, different interpretations, yeah yeah all that stuff.

The creation of the universe. How did it happen? An egg hatched. But where did the egg come from? God. But where did God come from? An egg. And where did that egg come from? A bunch of gods. And where did they come from? A bunch of eggs.

THE LOOP IN SCOPE.

Look, fuck you. This is my mythology. I can do whatever I want. Maybe not all stories can be told here.

FINE.

I just want a certain cohesion between my ideas over time.

I want things to connect like Marvel but not stupid and more fulfilling.

BUT WHAT DO I DO??????

Video games.

Video games are...the future.

In a video game, you...can do anything. The player is interactive. Video games are interactive.

What else is as interactive as video games? Architecture? Blow me.

I'm about to go make some REAL ramen. And I'll be back with a video game.