Monday, March 23, 2015

DREAM: I dreamt I needed to write an editor and a meta-editor

I dreamt last night that I needed to write an editor for my life. Instead of manipulating my life directly, as I have been doing, I need a development environment; an editor.

Rookies write games. Pros write tools to make writing games easier.

The dream went on to show that I also needed to write an editor for my editor. A meta-editor. This editor was more of an optimizer. It optimized for two axes: shimmer and fix. When I woke up, I realized that shimmer meant, "Improve what is already working until it shines," and fix meant, "Fix what is not working."