New Libertarian Video Game Patent: Quote Hayek/Mises: Shoot Communist Vampire/Zombies

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One picture says it all:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366448 "This is the greatest videogame patent I’ve ever read #1 "

http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=exalted&as_psra=1&as_psra=1

How much would it be worth to Bethesda/EA/38 Studios/Visceral/Bioware/Ubisoft?

Re: How much would it be worth to Bethesda/EA/38 Studios/Visceral/Bioware/Ubisoft?

How much would it be worth to put the following on a game box? “It is the dawn of the American Revolution, and it is up to you to build the fellowship that will lead the epic battle for freedom. From tavern to tavern you must walk the streets of Boston, listening in on conversations and recruiting those speaking (and oft whispering) of liberty’s epic ideals. Redcoats and King George’s spies abound, and when you hear the words of Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, you must engage the characters by speaking of liberty’s ideals yourself; or lose their trust. Throughout you must select the best words to rally and inspire the troops during the fierce war for freedom–to attract the poet warriors with the greatest characters to fight alongside you. Ideas have consequences and word must be matched with deed, as freedom’s fate falls upon your shoulders. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson””

I argue that such a novel approach to gaming–not only incorporating the words of the actual Founding Fathers–but rendering their consequences (or the dire consequences of their absence)–would be worth hundreds of millions, if not billions.

And wouldn’t that be an awesome game??? Imagine meeting Jefferson and Hamilton, finally defined by their greater aspects–their souls, characters, and words–and actualy recruiting Washington to command the forces, based upon his words!

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” --George Washington
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” --George Washington
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” --George Washington

Yes–of course we could give all the revolutionary soldiers BFGs and Lancer Chainsaws to satiate the fanboys; but the big draw of the game would be its depth and profundity! And imagine that in one of the Taverns is a hooker with a heart of gold. Hire her and kill her, as is exalted in GTA, and the world is lost. Talk to her, and “lady liberty” will tell you where you can find Thomas Paine.

Video games are a crowded art, and many argue there has been little innovation in the past several years (or decades), especially when it comes to depth, meaningful drama, and storytelling. Of course all the PR departments stamp “depth, character, meaningful drama, and epic storytelling!” on the boxes, just as they stamp “Dante’s Inferno” on the game which places Beatrice in the diametric opposite locale that Dante did, and nothing really ever changes as the fiatocracy declines.

A small innovation in a field of “crowded art” can go a long, long ways. For instance, applying the patent’s same technology to the traditional Vampire/Zombie game would result in the following enhanced gaming experience:

The “Gold 45 Revolver” mod of Left for Dead would be described with (seriously–the buzz alone on this would be worth millions to EA/Bethesda/Bioware/Visceral/Ubisoft/38studios):

Set in a modern-day survival-horror universe, the co-operative gameplay of Left 4 Dead (L4D) casts four “Survivors/freedom fighters” in an epic struggle against hordes of swarming zombies/communists and terrifying “Marx Infected” mutants. A new and highly virulent strain of the Marxist virus emerges and spreads through the human population with frightening speed via words, both spoken and written. The pandemic’s victims become grotesquely disfigured, violent psychopaths, attacking the uninfected on sight by handing them pamphlets and espousing Marxist philosophies while trying to bite/harm them. As one of the “lucky” few apparently immune to the sickness, as you have been reading F.A. Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises, and Thomas Jefferson, you, unfortunately, are trapped in a city crawling with thousands of the bloodthirsty Infected. Alone, you’re dead. But together with a handful of fellow survivors, who you can identify and recruit via dialogue trees incorporating Hayek/Jefferson/the Constitution wherein you also assess the NPC’s responses, you might just form a fellowship and fight your way to safety. Players can play as a Survivor or as one of four types of Boss/Marxist Infected, each of whom possess a unique mutant ability, such as a 50-foot tongue lasso, tenure at an ivy league university, an MBA, or a giant belly full of explosive methane gas. The gameplay of L4D is set across four massive campaigns. The zombie population of each mission is choreographed by an AI Director that monitors the human players’ actions and creates a unique and dramatic experience for them on the fly. Zombies may be transformed back into humans by quoting Hayek/Jefferson/et al. to them; but the further they have devolved–the more collectivist literature they have imbibed and the more MBA groupthink classes they have taken–the harder it is to save them. Early on in the game, some Vampire/Zombies may appear to be normal humans, and the only way to find out would be to quote Hayek to them and see if they respond with Lenin or Mises. Some of them can be reformed via dialogue, but for others, they can only be reformed by death. And in the end–only those players who have done their best to reform the Vampires/Zombies in word and deed–only those who have acted morally throughout the game, can truly wield the Gold 45 Revolver and realize its true power as it shoots Zeus’s Lightning while leveling the zombie masters and their hordes. Should you fail to reach and exalt your peers with classical ideals, the world will end as a zombie communist tyranny–“for the greater good of all.”"

Imagine how many millions would want to play such novel game types wherein ideas had consequences, and soul, character, and honor mattered! Litertaure including 1984, Animal Farm, A Brave New World, V is for Vendetta, The Matrix, Twilight, Atlas Shrugged, Dracula, and 300 could all be brought to life on a more profound level!

http://libertariangames.blogspot.com

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http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/

“From Patent # US 2009/0017886 A1: “If the player heeds the higher ideals and seeks the higher path they will be rewarded not with money and jacked cars, but with their soul.” What? More after the jump.

If you’ve read my editorials, you know that I’ve been pushing games towards a more serious path. An intense potential for creating and cultivating emotions and ideas in the players exists in games that is unique among artistic mediums and valuable for it. Dr. Elliot McGucken, a man dedicated to bringing sight to the blind and honoring Joseph Campbell, believes so to. And the way he’s realized this belief is through this patent [via EmCeeGramr on NeoGaf] that makes my stomach churn.

It isn’t all bad. The premises at the heart of this document (and hidden 37 pages in) might be a little more flowery than what I write in the average editorial, but is in line with my beliefs:

What follows this early example is a series of progressively more bizarre flowcharts and write ups, including Communist zombie vampires, magic guns, comparisons between Ron Paul and Jesus and Socrates, and even brings up other game developers - dozens (hundreds?) of potshots clearly aimed at GTA devs Rockstar, a long diatribe about the “fun” of evil in Fallout 3, and a slam against Will Wright for Spore.

McGucken’s philosophical core seems to support a mix of (sometimes contradicting) ethical and metaphysical systems, favoring our Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Homer, Socrates, and anyone who can take a magic golden .45 to the head of a Marxist Undead and pull the trigger.

What’s scary, for me, is that this might be exactly what gamers want. A blend of Neo-Classicism, Objectivism, Libertarianism, Christianity, and red-blooded vigilantism is at the core of plenty of the games that McGucken says we should move away from. Kratos, the protagonist of God of War, is damned near the embodiment of “No Gods or Kings, only Man.” Red Faction: Guerrilla seems to draw more on McGucken’s mix of ideas than on Marx’s. Resurrection fantasies run throughout gaming genres, from FPSes like Painkiller to RPGs like Xenogears (which, on second thought, Dr. McGucken must have written.)

While I feel trepidation in calling out a guy from Princeton who is curing blindness with virtual reality I have to say, there are a few holes here. Look, over and over it seems like what you’re saying is “Do what I feel is right and just or else lose the game.” Turning games into morality plays is a flame that developers Bethesda and BioWare have danced around without burning their wings, allowing for varied ethical systems to come into play and allowing the player to make their own judgments. Ideas of euthanasia, security vs freedom, centralized power, and eugenics are at the core of countless “choice” driven games, and what makes them great is the fact that neither path ends in denial.

Also, dude, it’s spelled B-U-D-D-H-A, not B-U-D-A. I guess they don’t teach spelling at Princeton.

In any case, check out these excerpts organized by the boys over at NeoGaf, then take a look at the full document yourself. Pick out a few favorite lines, and tuck them away. In the future we may even reward the person with the best Dr. McGucken’s Magical Choice Machine quote.”
—from http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/

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Ahahah.. hilarious.

But seriously, what the hell.. [:D]

Confusing..

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/500921

Think thats the game.. lol, made by a minarchist no doubt.. lot of hating on communists though [:D]

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Interesting…I wanted to smash the state and that somehow caused global serfdom…

Then I stated that the right to property is an inalienable right…which lead to global serfdom. I guess you have to say

  • Let me tell you about Ayn Rand\

  • Founding Fathers ‘figured it out’

-Shoot her.

Way to prove the NAP. Disagree with me and you get shot.

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Strange…It says that those who live by the mind have no need for violence except enforcing property rights…then I tried to battle Lenin in a battle of minds which lead to global serfdom. Is the author of this game conceding that Lenin is too intelligence and therefore must be unjustly killed?

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A Spartan Monarch next to Ron Paul…ok this is just plain idiotic. And hiring a prostitute gets you ‘diseased’. I can only guess the author implied that prostitute is a social immorality. Woe is me

:Edit: Oh wait the prostitute is someone trying to trick you towards using fiat currency…

I think someone with the political mind of a 12 year old made this.

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I’d say that’s the weirdest thing I’ve seen all day, but I watched the second Gremlins movie. But it definitely ranks second weirdest.

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I remember seeing this on game website Eegra. Pretty odd.

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Here is a response to Ted’s cool feedback at Garage Games: https://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/93643 http://libertariangames.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-for-words-ted-below-please-find.html

Thanks for the words Ted! Below, please find some of my responses! At the end, I include some excerpts from my book THE GOLD 45 REVOLVER: THE HERO’S JOURNEY IN ARTS ENTREPRENERUSHIP & TECHNOLOGY. Sign up on the mailing list to be notified about it at Arts Entrepreneurship or Hero’s Journey Renaissance! (Ted’s words in light red):

But all you’re describing in these examples are RPGs. Setting doesn’t matter, and the mechanics are all done, or easily doable. This isn’t a new system at all, which is probably why you’re talking about how the larger companies are ignoring you.

The larger companies are not ignoring me–they are ignoring the timeless, epic principles/secrets of Homer and Shakespeare–of Plato, Aristotle, and Jefferson–of Mises, Moses, and Dante. And they are thus leaving billions on the table! In all their prior art, there exists no Vampire/Zombie/Communist game wherein the Vampires/Communists/Zombies can be rescued/reformed via speaking classical ideals, nor is there any game wherein the Vampires/Communists/Zombies are caused by NPCs/players coming into contact with words, both/either spoken and written. Nor does there exist any game wherein one is consciously fighting for classical, constitutional ideals laid out in word at the beginning of the game–words which may be used throughout the game, instead of bullets, to win the war and also save the lives and souls of the enemies. These are simple, vast, primal concepts: and when implemented, they will result in a paradigm shift in games–billions in revenue for companies, and exalted art for gamers. Imagine you are standing in Best Buy. There are two versions of Gears of War. In one, the Locust Horde can be reformed and brought over to your side by quoting excerpts from the US Constitution–by engaging in dialogue–and where, in order to win, you are going to need to win their minds/hearts and souls.

In the other version, you can only shoot them in campaign after campaign. Which would you buy? Imagine you walk into EB Games, and you have to decide between two versions of GTA. In one, you can only hire and shoot hookers–there is no chance of reforming them nor talking them out of it. In the “Gold 45 Revolver” version of GTA, you can engage in dialogue with the Hooker and hand her copies of the Constitution and Bible, as well as Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, and thus enlist her in your struggle against the fiatocracy, the decline of freedom, and the growth of the corporate-state. She in turn would hand those works to her Pimp who would join you. Which version of GTA would you buy? Obviously the one wired with the novel technology found in “System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences.” –http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090017886

Art has ever been the realm where the noble soul could place their ideals which the world had no use for; and the novel game engine described by this new technology; opposed vehemently by the dominant fanboy/feminist fiatocracy—would foster a new realm of exalted gaming for true artsists—both those who created new games and played them. The major videogames companies are leaving billions on the table! [0388]This present invention pertains to introducing morality and epic storytelling into the realm of video games, resulting in video games with superior, deeper game play, expanded markets, and longer-lasting brands. The ability to render deeper emotion, story, and exalted dramatic arts within the realm of video games has been a long sought-after “holy grail” throughout the video game industry.

The prior art demonstrates how others have failed and are failing to deliver more meaningful and engaging games endowed with epic storytelling. This present invention provides the missing key to realizing epic storytelling, deeper emotional involvement, and higher art in video games. [0445]To date, no game allows one to fight for the US Constitution and a sound currency.

No game allows one to fight for the Founding Father’s original intent–for life, liberty, and happiness for all. No game allows one to fight for economic freedom beyond the fiat system that robs us all via the inflation tax. No game allows the player to quote Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Jefferson, Hazlitt, Jesus, Socrtes, and Moses in dialogue trees, nor via other means, en route to winning the hearts and minds of their people, rounding up and inspiring a group of rebel, and leading those rugged rebels in a battle founded upon ideas. No game allows one to fight Big Brother and ensure greater Civil Liberties and Personal Freedom. And certainly, no game allows the player to fight to implement the Constitutional Gold Standard, nor to take on the divorce regime, nor to protect the unborn. [0446]The present invention would allow the themes of V is for Vendetta, Atlas Shrugged, and The Fountainhead to be brought to life, as well as Orwell’s 1984, which resembles the modern university. The plot of 1984 could be enhanced, and hope could be allowed for Winston Smith. Suppose that Winston was successful in speaking with and recruiting enough people for a revolt. If he was too upfront with his ideas, he might be put to death. If he was too coy, he would never reach them. If he was too persistent, he could offend some people. If he gave up too soon, he might lose loyal followers. At any rate, it would make a great and unique game, as Winston Smith went up against Big Brother. The plot of 1984 is described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four with:

Quote:1. A method for creating video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences. Prior art going back to the days of MUD, where role-playing games endeavored to give the player the ability to make choices that had consequences. Also applies to prior art from just about every game in existence where a character represents an ideal (Double Dragon- the characters stood for justice and fought for it, and at the end had the choice of being good guys or joining the bad guys, which influenced the ending).

Yes–but there exists no truly open ended world in which the classical ideals truly underlying freedom and liberty must be rendered real, and wherein the world’s fate is rendered depending on your ability to serve the classical ideals: where the world is eitehr exlated to freedom and liberty via your words and deeds founded on classical ideals, or it declines into a feminist/fanboy/fiatocracy wherein classical ideals are banned form GTA/GoW/GOW/Dante’s Inferno. http://libertariangames.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-for-words-ted-below-please-find.html

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So.. it’s basically Left Behind: Eternal Forces, but with a political ideology?

I’m convinced this is a parody. Just look at the way they put freedom a few lines below capitalism with “also freedom”, then something or other about the super rich screwing up the global financial system not happening because they are all rational actors. Wondering if it’s stealth propaganda of some kind regarding the financial crisis. Also, I doubt anyone but opponents of capitalism would call a free market “unbridled”.

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With a little bit of imagination, the novel “Gold 45 Revolver(SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES )” gaming technology could open up brand new universes of gaming! The major gaming companies are leaving billions on the table!

The patent is a doorway to a paradigm shift—to a revolutionary form of gaming exalting the classical soul and epic ideals which the fiatcoracy had to rage against and debauch, thusly rendering their art and games impotent; as the soulless are incapable of art, as one cannot serve two masters. (Did you see the latest Transformers?)

Ideas have consequences, and EA’s fallen market cap is what one gets for placing Beatrice in Hell and completely ignoring the classical, epic, exalted soul; humanity’s vast and great heritage, and maverick, new storytelling technologies. It is quite tragic that they would rather lose money by debauching the spirit and soul, than make money by exalting it; but a fiat currency debauches the soul of all those it tempts with fiat stock options, as all serve Dante’s three-headed Satan in the ARG, while debauching Dante’s art, as Satan demands. As I stated at Something Awful, “One of the reasons Spore fell flat is that it forgot to incorporate the mechanisms which separate humanity from the rest of the universe–our moral soul’s natural, exalted longing for truth, beauty, and justice–the fruits of epic storytelling and exalted mythologies.” –

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=9

Think like a developer/marketer for a major company here; and come up with some scenes exalted by the new “Gold 45 Revolver” technology!

Think big, like in the ending wherein the Fiatocracy’s Vampires/Communists/Feminist Fanboys swarm our lone rider in the mountain town, screaming/shrieking the words of Lenin/Marx/Feminism/Fiatism in Banshee voices.

Alone our lone rider stands in the thundering downpour, as the lightning reveals the grotesque swarm–the horror of their collective countenance is only trumped by the screeching words. Alone he stands, with his 45; and if he has done the right thing throughout, legend has it that the 45 will glow gold and shoot Zeus’s lighting, slaying the hundreds, if not thousands of rough Vampire/Communist/Zombie beasts who slouch his way, screaming, distorting the words/slogans of the declining fiatocracy in a most demonic manner (see the quotes below!)
–http://libertariangames.blogspot.com/2009/07/novel-gold-45-revolversystem-and-method.html

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If your game involves violence or guns in order to raise anarchy to overthrow the government then what you are suggesting is only damaging to the Libertarian movement. You don’t understand the cause. If you try to label your game as something related to “Libertarian” then it will likely face strong opposition or dismissal as something extreme right wing and not true Libertarian.

If the Libertarian movement to succeed it must be done by using logic and intellegence to educate the public of the cause. This has to be a peaceful movement. Otherwise it will just add tyrany and the demand of the people to put in place a dictator to create civil peace. This is how Hitler came to power.

It is the ones in power who will use violent force against those who seek to undermine them using intelligence and education to show the error of their ways.

Read Thomas Paines “Common Sense”. Google it. It’s free.

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well, here is the communist vampire/zombie: http://www.flickr.com/photos/picturesofautumn/3663861503/sizes/l/in/dateposted/

here is the gold 45 revolver:
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here is the gold 45 revolver shooting the communist/vampire zombie.
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i think that even an MBA could grasp this.

Someone made the first demo! I have no idea who…
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/500921

Gerry’s game falls short in many ways including the soundtrack–I would set it to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH2DNAB0Qo

Also, where are the Banshee Shriekers?

Think big, like in the ending wherein the Fiatocracy’s Vampires/Communists/Feminist Fanboys swarm our lone rider in the mountain town, screaming/shrieking the words of Lenin/Marx/Feminism/Fiatism in Banshee voices.

With a little bit of imagination, the novel “Gold 45 Revolver(SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES )” gaming technology could open up brand new universes of gaming! The major gaming companies are leaving billions on the table!

The patent is a doorway to a paradigm shift-to a revolutionary form of gaming exalting the classical soul and epic ideals which the fiatcoracy had to rage against and debauch, thusly rendering their art and games impotent; as the soulless are incapable of art, as one cannot serve two masters. (Did you see the latest Transformers?)

Alone our lone rider stands in the thundering downpour, as the lightning reveals the grotesque swarm–the horror of their collective countenance is only trumped by the screeching words. Alone he stands, with his 45; and if he has done the right thing throughout, legend has it that the 45 will glow gold and shoot Zeus’s lighting, slaying the hundreds, if not thousands of rough Vampire/Communist/Zombie beasts who slouch his way, screaming, distorting the words/slogans of the declining fiatocracy in a most demonic manner (see the quotes below!)

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here’s the hooker “kill montage” in fallout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQSjeu4710

in our version of the game, she will hold the secret to the gold 45 revolver, and without that gold 45 revolver which fires zeus’s lightning (as long as you have done the moral thing throughout the game), there is no way that you will be able to defeat the hordes of feminist/fanboy/fiatocracy zombie/vampire/communists at the end, as hundreds descend upon you, shrieking the fiatocracy’s slogans at full volume, as beethoven’s ninth thunders in the background.

so basically, you are better off not killing hookers in our version of the game, but rather talking to them. they just might tell you of those classic, epic ideals that the fiatocracy has banned.

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Unbelievable coverage!

Happy 4th! The videogames renaissance & revolution hath begun! Check out the “Gold 45 Revolver” patent heard 'round the world:

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXALTED VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES WHEREIN IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ&dq=exalted&as_psra=1&as_psra=1

http://libertariangames.blogspot.com

“a fallout 3 mod based on this shit would be boss as fuck.”
“What’s scary, for me, is that this might be exactly what gamers want.” --onelastcontinue.com
http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/
“What scares me most is I agree with the core pillars of what you are saying.” –http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4061/dramatic_play.php

@SIMDYNASTY: “I didn’t bother reading it, but my friend (who found it) said “did you notice he quotes the Declaration of Independence, Gandhi and then talks about Clint Eastwood and Eminem?”” --simdynasty.com
“That thing is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving.” --simdynasty.com
“Fuck! I actually have to come back and read this later as it will take too long right now. Fucking hell though!”
@TWITTER: Wow! Most amazing videogame patent ever. Save the earth from communism by not shooting the hooker! 120page WIN http://tinyurl.com/savehooker –http://twitter.com/DenUngeHerrHolm

Happy 4th everyone! Tomorrow we declare our Independence from the gaming industry which is leaving billions on the table by neglecting to create games with epic soul, exalted story, character, honor, love, and romance. A new age has begun! An age . . . of FREEDOM! Freedom from the “epic-fail” fiatocracy! An era of gaming whence the player shall be afforded the opportunnity to fight for ideals far greater than themselves–for the Constitution and the classic, epic soul exalted form Homer on down.

“actually a fallout 3 mod based on this shit would be boss as fuck. you could totally do it, you fight the communist chinese ghouls and use speech trees to save the wasteland from collectivism” --perianwyr http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=9

“All of us who have been struggling to work out how to make meaningful games and interactive narratives can rest easy. The problem has been solved.” –http://wordsonplay.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/system-and-method-for-creating-exalted-video-games-and-virtual-realities-wherein-ideas-have-consequences/

@TEAMXBOX
VIDEO GAME IDEA OF THE CENTURY!
forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=623861
“Video Game Idea of the Century!” --Garp
“This would be the most abstract game ever. I’d play it.” --Dutch
“That game would be so different that it would have to be good. I’d definitely play it!” --Z A C K
“I’d play it.” --Bleeding Black

"here is my concept art for a communist zombie please hire me to make your video game "
–http://img0841.paintedover.com/uploads/0841/chinese_remnant_sergeant.jpg --perianwyr
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=10

@NEOGAF
THIS IS THE GREATEST VIDEOGAME PATENT I HAVE EVER READ:
www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366448
“This is the greatest videogame patent I’ve ever read.” --EmCeeGramr
“I think this guy has golden humour.” --Foxspirit
“Do a Google search on Dr. Elliot McGucken, the dude who filed for the patent. It will blow your mind.” --Zealous D.
“That’s awesome.” --Tentacle
“Is this a patent or the insane ratings of mad man?” --speculawyer
“This thread is so full of win I hardly know what to do with it.”
“Each line, I keep thinking, ‘This is the funniest shit ever.’ And then I read another line, and…HOW DOES IT KEEP GETTING BETTER?” --alistairw
“Can you imagine having the guy as your physics professor?”
“Thread is amazing, though. I can’t help but hope that he’s somehow trolling the patent system…it must be amazing to be a patent worker trying to review it. “And then the player must choose to not quote Marx, thus exalting his classical soul?!””

@I LOVE MANCHESTER MUSIC (IN THE UK)
“Fuck! I actually have to come back and read this later as it will take too long right now. Fucking hell though!”
http://www.ilovemanchestermusic.co.uk/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t8875.html

@SIMDYNASTY.COM
“THE BEST THING TO EVER COME OUT OF MY JOB!”
http://forum.simdynasty.com/viewthread.php?tid=215205
""One man with a gun can control 100 without one. I will suck your blood. Sounds fun. "
"the name is "System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences its part of public record, the publication number is 20090017866. Put that number into google and it shows up. The free patent places online generally have the description, but none of the images (which are all similar flow charts). I didnt bother reading it, but my friend (who found it) said “did you notice he quotes the Declaration of Independence, Gandhi and then talks about Clint Eastwood and Eminem?” "

@GAMASUTRA:
"You are clearly a very intelligent, self-driven, inspired and passionate person with vision. What scares me most is I agree with the core pillars of what you are saying. That said some of your flowcharts kill me, I almost died laughing today both from your patent and the Neogaf thread. “When the worst student is told about the way he laughs out loud; if he did not laugh, it would not be good enough to be the way.” -Lao Tzu

I admire you for your boldness. Honestly don’t think your patent is enforceable, but if you are looking to develop work in the multi-threaded vain your work suggests, you are certainly creating a lot of buzz to leverage. You’ve managed to steer this thread in a different direction…" --Stephen Dinehart
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4061/dramatic_play.php#comments

@GAMASUTRA:
Ranger, I was not aware of that work, and many of the ideas that I am trying to work out are in there. However, I have a fundamental beef with some parts of it, such as the uselessness of the Hero’s Journey as a narrative structure, the fact that it is a method, not a story, and the fact that it is about game implementation rather than story creation. On the other hand, if such a system ever actually sees the light of day, it would be the perfect tool for creating truly epic interactive stories. My other beef is its generality; I can see three generations of academic debate over just one of the 21 statements: “The method in claim 1 where the said ideas are based upon the pivotal plot points of the great books and classics.” --Jeff Spock
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JeffSpock/20090625/2134/What_Is_A_Good_Game_Story.php

@SOMETHINGAWFUL:
“Why couldn’t there be a version where, in order to win, you must distribute Marx, Bakunin, and Kropotkin, creating solidarity among the prostitutes, leading to rebellion against the pimps and the establishment of a prostitute’s union?”
–http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8

“LF: where the character can battle for said ideas that are based upon classical moral and economic principles of famous philosophers” --Total Hell –http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8

“dude this is pretty interesting i hope you keep posting around here for a while” --Jay B. Bulworth –http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=9

"mcgucken i would totally buy the shit out of your game " --Goatstein

“One of the reasons Spore fell flat is that it forgot to incorproate the mechanisms which separate humanity from the rest of the universe–our moral soul’s natural, exalted longing for truth, beauty, and justice–the fruits of epic storytelling and exalted mytholgies.” --Dr. E

“You, sir, are fascinating. So much so that I’m not sure where to start.” --Hayt, http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=9

@AMAZON:
Publius says:
“I’d probably plop down $45 bucks for your band of revolutionaries versus Marxist zombies shoot-em-up/philosophize-em-up video game.”
–http://www.amazon.com/New-Libertarian-Video-Game-Patent/forum/Fx1LHCC8HH8X3OO/Tx37RQ60U78VZMY/1/ref=cm_cd_dp_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&asin=1416562850&store=books

“EA has been struggling to develop new hits to bolster its lineup of reliable sequels to games like the John Madden football series. The company said in late September that it had sold to retailers roughly two million copies of Spore, an ambitious evolution-themed PC game, but it is not clear if Spore was a hit or a profitable game.” –http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/television/10arts-VIDEOGAMECRE_BRF.html

“The company also has been under pressure from investors and game makers to come up with creative new game franchises, and critics say it has struggled to do so. The somewhat more iconoclastic Take-Two publishing house was seen by some investors as a union that could bolster Electronic Arts’ creative efforts.” –http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/technology/18iht-19game.15401246.html

Well, why not incorporate ideas that have consequences and open the floodgates for billions in revenue and a new generation of games?

"here is my concept art for a communist zombie please hire me to make your video game "
–http://img0841.paintedover.com/uploads/0841/chinese_remnant_sergeant.jpg --perianwyr
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=10

@EEGRA:
http://www.eegra.com/pages/show/title/31_05_2009_Sunday_Sundries___quot_NPC1_becomes_vampire_communist_quot_/
Sunday Sundries: “NPC1 becomes vampire/communist” “A video game method and system for creating games where ideas have consequences, incorporating branching paths that correspond to a player’s choices, wherein paths correspond to decisions founded upon ideals, resulting in exalted games with deeper soul and story, enhanced characters and meanings, and exalted gameplay.” Includes a communist vampire.

@POE-NEWS:
“You laugh, but this is a pretty good summary of Hegelianism.
NINJA RELATED CRIMES”
“I can’t stop laughing at this, with some guilt, because this guy is CRAAAAAAAYYY”
http://www.poe-news.com/forums/sp.php?pi=1002022550
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This is so crazy, I think it just cured a case of schizophrenia.
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Seriously, I laughed so loud reading it that one of our schizophrenic patients came in. “What’s so funny, Vegan?” he asks. I just turn the laptop and let him read (fortunately, he’s fluent in english). He browses the document for about 3 minutes, his eyes getting bigger and bigger, then turns the laptop back to me, and, leaving the staff room, says “Now I feel sane.”
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I found my new getting laid shirt.
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@TWITTER

DenUngeHerrHolm: Wow! Most amazing videogame patent ever. Save the earth from communism by not shooting the hooker! 120page WIN http://tinyurl.com/savehooker

The best video game patent/manifesto: http://bit.ly/fcrCy “What does player do?” “Quote Marx.” "World falls to serfdom."2:05 PM Jun 27th from bit.ly

IdleThumbs
Chris Remo

omg this is a mindblowing video game patent application, the one to end them all: http://bit.ly/JV14T (via NeoGaf: http://bit.ly/RTVYr)9:47 AM Jun 27th from TweetDeck –http://twitter.com/aquito

120 page long video game patent about killing Communist Vampires and Nazi Zombies http://ping.fm/6YXHp6:13 AM Jun 28th from Ping.fm –http://twitter.com/raminedarabiha

Flunkie: RT @aquito: omg! mindblowing video game patent application, the 1 to end them all: http://bit.ly/JV14T (via NeoGaf: http://bit.ly/RTVYr ) 5 days ago from TweetDeck
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http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/

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Vampire Zombie Communist Hookers? Patent It!
By Austin Walker, 1:30 pm on June 27, 2009

From Patent # US 2009/0017886 A1: “If the player heeds the higher ideals and seeks the higher path they will be rewarded not with money and jacked cars, but with their soul.” What? More after the jump.

If you’ve read my editorials, you know that I’ve been pushing games towards a more serious path. An intense potential for creating and cultivating emotions and ideas in the players exists in games that is unique among artistic mediums and valuable for it. Dr. Elliot McGucken, a man dedicated to bringing sight to the blind and honoring Joseph Campbell, believes so to. And the way he’s realized this belief is through this patent [via EmCeeGramr on NeoGaf] that makes my stomach churn.

It isn’t all bad. The premises at the heart of this document (and hidden 37 pages in) might be a little more flowery than what I write in the average editorial, but is in line with my beliefs:

I agree, Doctor - outside of the weird Objectivist overtones… Anyway, what should we do with this new found ability to create meaningful art?

O-..Oh… I was going to suggest something about exploring issues of personal identity or vague ethics, but you seem pretty dead set on this shooting women thing.

What follows this early example is a series of progressively more bizarre flowcharts and write ups, including Communist zombie vampires, magic guns, comparisons between Ron Paul and Jesus and Socrates, and even brings up other game developers - dozens (hundreds?) of potshots clearly aimed at GTA devs Rockstar, a long diatribe about the “fun” of evil in Fallout 3, and a slam against Will Wright for Spore.

McGucken’s philosophical core seems to support a mix of (sometimes contradicting) ethical and metaphysical systems, favoring our Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Homer, Socrates, and anyone who can take a magic golden .45 to the head of a Marxist Undead and pull the trigger.

What’s scary, for me, is that this might be exactly what gamers want. A blend of Neo-Classicism, Objectivism, Libertarianism, Christianity, and red-blooded vigilantism is at the core of plenty of the games that McGucken says we should move away from. Kratos, the protagonist of God of War, is damned near the embodiment of “No Gods or Kings, only Man.” Red Faction: Guerrilla seems to draw more on McGucken’s mix of ideas than on Marx’s. Resurrection fantasies run throughout gaming genres, from FPSes like Painkiller to RPGs like Xenogears (which, on second thought, Dr. McGucken must have written.)

While I feel trepidation in calling out a guy from Princeton who is curing blindness with virtual reality I have to say, there are a few holes here. Look, over and over it seems like what you’re saying is “Do what I feel is right and just or else lose the game.” Turning games into morality plays is a flame that developers Bethesda and BioWare have danced around without burning their wings, allowing for varied ethical systems to come into play and allowing the player to make their own judgments. Ideas of euthanasia, security vs freedom, centralized power, and eugenics are at the core of countless “choice” driven games, and what makes them great is the fact that neither path ends in denial.

Also, dude, it’s spelled B-U-D-D-H-A, not B-U-D-A. I guess they don’t teach spelling at Princeton.

In any case, check out these excerpts organized by the boys over at NeoGaf, then take a look at the full document yourself. Pick out a few favorite lines, and tuck them away. In the future we may even reward the person with the best Dr. McGucken’s Magical Choice Machine quote."

–http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/

@GARAGEGAMES.COM

Ranger’s Quote:
“If EA reached out to those seeking not just fanboy entertainment, but depth, profundity, exaltation, and enlightenment; they would massively exalt their own bottom line; while also accomplishing far greater things” 3. lol, EA reaching out… lmfao. –https://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/93643/2#comments

@moddb: “So I guess you could say I’m in, but you have to be willing to accept my ideas.”

http://libertariangames.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-for-words-ted-below-please-find.html
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589
http://libertariangames.blogspot.com

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=623861 “VIDEO GAME IDEA OF THE CENTURY!”
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366448 “THIS IS THE GREATEST VIDEO GAME PATENT I HAVE EVER READ.”

''Ahahah.. hilarious. But seriously, what the hell. Confusing..http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/500921 Think thats the game.. lol, made by a minarchist no doubt.. lot of hating on communists though" –New Libertarian Video Game Patent: Quote Hayek/Mises: Shoot Communist Vampire/Zombies - #13 by gold45revolver