   Patent: System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities wher
  Would love to build a game like that described in this patent!What would be the easiest vampire/zombie games/FPS's to mod?  All we would have to do is add voices and some simple AI to the vampires/zombies/NPCs.System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences:http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ (Patent application)http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1_1 (figures)"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. The classical hero’s journey may be rendered, as the journey hinges on choices pivoting on classical ideals. Ideas that are rendered in word and deed will have consequences in the gameworld. Historical events such as The American Revolution may be brought to life, as players listen to famous speeches and choose sides. As great works of literature and dramatic art center around characters rendering ideals real, both internally and externally, in word and deed, in love and war, the present invention will afford video games that exalt the classical soul, as well as the great books, classics, and epic films—past, present, and future."Found it at random, gogled it, and it is getting some buzz:http://wordsonplay.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/system-and-method-for-creating-exalted-video-games-and-virtual-realities-wherein-ideas-have-consequences/http://www.eegra.com/pages/show/title/31_05_2009_Sunday_Sundries___quot_NPC1_becomes_vampire_communist_quot_/http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3146757http://progsoc.org/~curious/?p=732Has anyone done anything like this?What would be the easiest vampire/zombie game or FPS to mod?All we would have to do is add voices to the characters and some simple AI.1. A method for creating video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences. 2. The method in claim 1 where said ideas are rooted in classical, epic precepts such as those found in the Great Books and Classics, and exalted at the pinnacles of Western culture and history. 3. The method in claim 1 where said ideas are manifested in the words the player or non-player characters, write, speak, read, disseminate, congregate about, fight for, and/or associate with. 4. The method in claim 1 where said ideas are manifested in the actions the player, non-player characters, and/or monsters act out. 5. The method in claim 1 where said ideas spread like viruses, by being spoken, written, or disseminated in some other manner, transforming characters who come in contact with said ideas into vampires, zombies, or other forms of monsters. 6. The method in claim 1 where said ideas spread like viruses, by being spoken, written, or disseminated in some other manner, transforming characters who come in contact with said ideas into vampires, zombies, or other forms of monsters, and where said vampires, zombies, and monsters may be saved or converted back to normal by coming in contact with ideas that oppose the ideas that made them vampires, zombies, and other forms of monsters. 7. The method in claim 1 where said ideas must be fought for via words and dialogue, before they have exalted consequences. 8. The method in claim 1 where said ideas must be fought for via deeds and actions, before they have exalted consequences.    
  Please don't cross-post on these forums.The patent's hilarious, BTW... everyone should take a look. It's like Dead Rising, but with COMMUNISM instead of genetic research, and a grumpy libertarian instead of a reporter. It's too bad that someone who wants to make schizoid political screed games will have to license the patent from this guy![Edited by - Sneftel on June 3, 2009 10:46:35 AM];Quote:Original post by SneftelPlease don't cross-post on these forums.The patent's hilarious, BTW... everyone should take a look. It's like Dead Rising, but with COMMUNISM instead of genetic research, and a grumpy libertarian instead of a reporter. It's too bad that someone who wants to make schizoid political screed games will have to license the patent from this guy!My favorite is how even though you make what are presumably weighty choices, the only two results are Serfdom or unilateral freedom.I guess he's going to sue Taito over Space Invaders now, since the only outcomes there are complete annihilation or unilateral freedom. I don't think Taito had an incredibly poorly thought out sophomore-year political ideology underlying the whole thing, however.I'm kind of surprised a libertarian is using the patent system. I wonder what it's like inside this guy's head.   ;  Are you saying that Libertarians are against property rights and intellectual property?Please cite your sources.  Thanks!I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind. Engrave this quote in -Friedrich A. Hayek What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all it be nominally that of ‘society’ as a whole of that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us.   -Friedrich A. Hayek Author Quote Source Page Subject Ludwig von Mises The social system of private property and limited government is the only system that tends to debarbarize all those who have the innate capacity to acquire personal culture. Liberty and Property p. 26 Barbarism Ludwig von Mises The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property. Liberalism p. 63 Civilization Ludwig von Mises Liberalism champions private property in the means of production because it expects a higher standard of living from such an economic organization, not because it wishes to help the owners. Socialism p. 46 Classical Liberalism Ludwig von Mises That Liberalism aims at the protection of property and that it rejects war are two expressions of one and the same principle. Socialism p. 59 Classical Liberalism Ludwig von Mises The only task of the strictly Liberal state is to secure life and property against attacks both from external and internal foes. Socialism p. 133 Classical Liberalism Ludwig von Mises Freedom, democracy, peace, and private property are deemed good because they are the best means for promoting human happiness and welfare. Liberalism wants to secure to man a life free from fear and want. That is all. Omnipotent Government p. 51 Classical Liberalism Ludwig von Mises Imagine a world order in which liberalism is supreme . . . there is private property in the means of production. The working of the market is not hampered by government interference. There are no trade barriers; men can live and work where they want. Omnipotent Government pp. 91-92 Classical Liberalism Ludwig von Mises Economic calculation can only take place by means of money prices established in the market for production goods in a society resting on private property in the means of production. Socialism p. 123 Economic Calculation Ludwig von Mises Politically there is nothing more advantageous for a government than an attack on property rights, for it is always an easy matter to incite the masses against the owners of land and capital. . Liberalism p. 69 Government Ludwig von Mises In spite of all persecutions, however, the institution of private property has survived. Neither the animosity of all governments, nor the hostile campaign waged against it by writers and moralists and by churches and religions, nor the resentment of the masses...has availed to abolish it. Liberalism p. 69 Government Ludwig von Mises If the State takes the power of disposal from the owner piecemeal, by extending its influence over production... then the owner is left at last with nothing except the empty name of ownership, and property has passed into the hands of the State. Socialism p. 45 Interventionism Ludwig von Mises In the political sphere, there is no means for an individual or a small group of individuals to disobey the will of the majority. But in the intellectual field private property makes rebellion possible. Liberty and Property p. 12 Majority Rule Ludwig von Mises The market process is a daily repeated plebiscite, and it ejects inevitably from the ranks of profitable people those who do not employ their property according to the orders given by the public. Liberty and Property p. 10 Market process Ludwig von Mises A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven toward the abolition of private property; it has to recognize that there is no middle way between the system of private property in the means of production combined with free contract, and the system of common ownership of the means of production, or socialism. It is gradually forced toward compulsory production, universal obligation to labor, rationing of consumption, and, finally, official regulation of the whole of production and consumption. The Theory of Money and Credit p. 281 Price control Ludwig von Mises The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production. . . . All the other demands of liberalism result from this fundamental demand. Liberalism p. 19 Private Property Ludwig von Mises The essential teaching of liberalism is that social cooperation and the division of labor can be achieved only in a system of private ownership of the means of production, i.e., within a market society, or capitalism. All the other principles of liberalismdemocracy, personal freedom of the individual, freedom of speech and of the press, religious tolerance, peace among the nationsare consequences of this basic postulate. They can be realized only within a society based on private property. Omnipotent Government p. 48 Private Property Ludwig von Mises Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. Liberalism pp. 6768 Private Property Ludwig von Mises If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be that private ownership of the means of production is a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. . . . Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art and literature. Planned Chaos p. 81 Private Property Ludwig von Mises Under capitalism, private property is the consummation of the self-determination of the consumers. Human Action p. 680; p. 683 Private Property Ludwig von Mises The continued existence of society depends upon private property. Liberalism p. 87 Private Property Ludwig von Mises Governments tolerate private property when they are compelled to do so, but they do not acknowledge it voluntarily in recognition of its necessity. Liberalism p. 68 Private Property Ludwig von Mises The truth is that every infringement of property rights and every restriction of free enterprise impairs the productivity of labor. The Theory of Money and Credit p. 484 Private Property Ludwig von Mises They and their members and officials have acquired the power and the right to commit wrongs to person and property, to deprive individuals of the means of earning a livelihood, and to commit many other acts which no one can do with impunity. Planning for Freedom p. 191 Unions Ludwig von Mises Ownership turns the fighting man into the economic man. Only the exclusion of private property can maintain the military character of the State. Only the warrior, who has no other occupation apart from war than preparation for war, is always ready for war. Men occupied in affairs may wage wars of defense but not long wars of conquest. Socialism pp. 220-21 War and Peace Ludwig von Mises Full freedom of movement of persons and goods, the most comprehensive protection of the property and freedom of each individual, removal of all state compulsion in the school system, in short, the most exact and complete application of the ideas of 1789, are the prerequisites of peaceful conditions. Nation, State, and Economy p. 96 War and Peace Ludwig von Mises If you want to abolish war, you must eliminate its causes. What is needed is to restrict government activities to the preservation of life, health, and private property, and thereby to safeguard the working of the market. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. Omnipotent Government p. 138 War and Peace Ludwig von Mises No investment is safe forever. He who does not use his property in serving the consumers in the most efficient way is doomed to failure. Human Action p. 308; p. 312 wealth Ludwig von Mises The social system of private property and limited government is the only system that tends to debarbarize all those who have the innate capacity to acquire personal culture. ;  Wow, look at all those quotes! You're sure to save the world from zombies now! Thanks for everything!   