A Cube is Like a Building

Andy and Anthony talk about the history of architecture and the design of the physical spaces we inhabit. They draw parallels to design more broadly, the design of games as mental spaces, and specifically Cube design.

Discussed in this episode:

• The Beauty of Games
• Buckminster Fuller
• Tech Won’t Save Us, Episode 221: Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco
• Cod, by Mark Kurlansky
• GeoGuessr
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Nine Men’s Morris
• No One Knows How to Make a Computer Mouse TED Talk — Andy’s note: as it turns out, this talk absolutely sucks, lol. It’s almost like a parody of a bad TED talk.
• Toaster Made from Scratch, by Thomas Thwaites
• The Brown Center
• Antoni Goudy
• Catenaries
• Typescript

Timestamps

0:00 - Introduction

5:22 - Generalists vs. Specialists and Contextual Knowledge

11:55 - Andy and Anthony’s Relationship to Architecture

16:48 - The Abstract Similarities between Architecture and Game Design

23:46 - An abridged history of Architecture and how it connects to game design — Vernacular Architecture

33:05 - Architecture in the European Renaissance and the changing relationship between the designer and the building

39:23 - The Industrial Revolution and Modernism

41:51 - Andy and Anthony’s Relationship with Modern Architecture

55:51 - Summary

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

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