# galapagos - garmedev engines as intelligent play systems a model for rethinking / viewing development of garme systems as another form of play under the umbrella term or metaphor "galápagos" (after the media installation by karl sims) this model feels organic and more humanistically intuitive v0.1 pre-alpha recommended price to develop this as a concept garme engines as direct play enablers rather than simply making worlds or maps - an obsolete development notion in many ways that takes far too long - consider that garme engines could be immediate direct enablers of play - through the very (social) act of developmental play - "devplay" intelligent garme engine systems intelligent garme engine systems are those 'smart' enough to evolve as independent open states of play - software based supertoys like an a.i. teddy supertoy perfectly able and content to play by itself the basic elementary components (processes not objects) of an iges inter-act together in interesting dynamic ways and are complex enough for nonlinear infinitely procedural emergent behaviors to spontaneously occur artists such as brian eno have been talking for years about such generative systems an emergent visual language of development-as-play the line between playing a garme and developing one is already blurred so to make development a true form of play seems the next logical step; players constructing realtime meaning through a visual language as code // video here ****update patch** 1: emailing gabe** sent an email to gabe newell of valve about the "galapagos" development-as-play model **update patch** 2: applied for a position at valve as virtual philosophy consultant (vpc) got an awesomely cool naturally somewhat disappointing email from valve ;-) email from philip lafornara hi robert thank you very much for applying to valve. we appreciate the time and energy you took creating your application and in letting us know of a potential skillset that could be of use to us at the present time we are not going to move forward with your application. however if our needs change we will certainly be in touch. we wish you the best of luck in your next steps sincerely valve recruiting many thanks for your reply to my odd application. valve rock. (nntr) dear mr. lafornara thank you immensely for your swift reply and your incredibly kind and thoughtful words. honestly i am staggered anyone at valve took time to respond to such a flakey request ;-) as stated in my application any time your tight crew of professionals wants to drop by for a friendly chat about development as play please feel free to do so; my doors are always open as an wannabe indie garme dev and digital media artist with many strange ideas and zero current income it's incredibly heart warming to hear from an organization as cool as yours may the digital road rise up to meet you sincerely robert what // republic of bob