The Prince of Wales with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly.
‘Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World’ (2010). In his book, Prince Charles calls for the need for ‘right thinking’ (Steiner also lectured and wrote about thoughts and thinking independently) and to put nature back at the heart of our considerations. He discusses the grammar of harmony and the spiritual dimension of our lives being seriously neglected in the west. Prince Charles refers to Steiner’s work on agriculture and the need to work with the grain of nature, not against it. It calls for a revolution to fight what he calls a crisis of perception. Prince Charles book is simply called ‘ Harmony‘ with the sub-title ‘ A New Way of Looking at our World’. One would expect the intuitive elements to be present either implicitly or explicitly. These include Waldorf Schools, biodynamic agriculture and the Anthroposophical Society that has branches worldwide. I’m looking forward to discovering more about Steiner’s writings and actions and how these are reflected in the initiatives that arose from or were influenced by them. Twelve lectures by Rudolf Steiner revised and translated by M. ‘Harmony of the Creative Word: The Human Being and the Elemental Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms’ (2001). All of these ‘teachers’ had an elemental understanding of the world and the way it works. What I have learnt so far is that he was a fervent student of Goethe, alchemy and Felix Kogutski. I am only starting to learn about the breadth and depth of his philosophy and practice. Steiner’s name frequently appears in my exploration of the intuitive elements. The book ‘ Harmony of the Creative Word‘ contains 12 lectures by Rudolf Steiner on human beings and the elemental animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. In this vein, both have books with Harmony in the title which are related to the elements fire, water, earth, air and aether/spirit. They were/are both interested in education, farming without chemicals, geometry, architecture, beauty, the interconnectedness of nature, spirituality, addressing the crises facing humanity and creating harmony. That is a very interesting discussion by itself, so I might my thoughts on that at a later time.Like Captain Planet and the App Tengami (check out the post ‘ Planetary pop-ups‘), Rudolf Steiner and the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) have more in common than many may appreciate. This is ultimately what allowed them to rapidly iterate on the level design:ĭuring the episode, we also talked about a few other topics, including Jennifer's new game "Astrologaster": Here are the relevant timestamps:Īnother important aspect behind the development of "Tengami", is that Nyamyam worked for over one year on a tool to fold paper. You can hear more about the art and design of "Tengami" during the live interview. This skeuomorphism also created a sense of immersion and playfulness, possibly because most of us have experienced pop-up books during our childhood. The game made obvious what kind of interactions were possible. The second one is that it created a game which felt pure and respectful of the medium it replicates.Īs an extra bonus, the game mechanic felt very intuitive, since people are very familiar with paper. This had two interesting consequences: the first one, is that it forced Nyamyam to explore the paper folding mechanic very thoroughly. On top of creating the levels (which is a difficult task by itself) they also added the extra constraint that all levels had to be actual pop-pup diorama. This is very interesting, because it means that game studio Nyamyam set themselves up for an extra challenge. While some of the levels might be too finicky to work on real paper, the folding techniques are indeed correct.
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She learnt how to fold paper to create pop-up books, and applied those very same techniques in the game. Something that Jennifer made very clear during the interview is that there was virtually no cheating of any kind involved. The entire game is actually a massive pop-up book. If you are unfamiliar with the game, it is heavily inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese pop-up books. As a co-founder of the indie studio Nyamyam, she helped to bring "Tengami" to life. This week I had the chance of interviewing game designer and developer Jennifer Schneidereit.
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