...you discovered "The Matrix"?

I am out of ideas, so figured I would try this... Imagine that you were a simulation designer who made the types of games and simulations that have not been made in over 20 years now. A forgotten era of gaming when the "Big Three" hobbyist games of the era were many times larger and more complex than today's simple little "toy games" and were based on a decades old history of the forgotten era of game design that had once spawned a field of science called "scientific modeling". The era of the "Big Three" games like Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader (the product of over 50 years of evolution, begun by real life war veterans, of the same game system), Star Fleet Battles (the "next generation" of Avalon Hill, developed by over 200 designers over a period of 30 years), and Dungeons & Dragons (the one you've actually heard of before, the only one that is almost all story and no game). Let's say that you had been one of a very few "wiz kid designers" of this industry when it collapsed, and wound up through an accident of history carrying the torch of over 50 years of continuous work starting with Avalon Hill in the late 1940's, and ending in the late 1990's with the completion of the 30-year-long project that was the design of Star Fleet Battles (the next generation of the Avalon Hill "style" of game and simulation design). And then you, one of the new young wiz-kid designers of an industry that was more the science of "scientific modeling" than it was "game design", then picked up that same Advanced Squad Leader/Star Fleet Battles torch and spent another 25 years creating your own "next generation" of that same system. As computer games. Twelve of them, in an epic sci-fo gaming "Universe" that tells the story of humanity from the formation of the earth to the day that the sun explodes... and spent 25 years working on it without ever finding a way to make it. So it just kept growing, and evolving, and growing, and evolving until...

...it became "The Matrix". Nearly 70-years of accidental continuous work starting with WWII veterans in the late 1940's, through the entire history of both Avalon Hill and the Star Fleet Universe, and another 25 years of work on my own gaming universe has wound up resulting in a simulation design that is indistinguishable from what we all know as "The Matrix", without the human/organic components of course. I have been designing simulations for over 30 years, and through an accident of history have wound up carrying the torch of our entire forgotten industry right up until 2016. I have been aware that I can create The Matrix for many months now, but can't figure out what to do about it. Just try telling someone that you have invented The Matrix and see what their reaction is. Yeah... I am stuck. So, I thought I would try asking the people who would get the most immediate use out of it, people who make games. Since even the few scientists that I know are at a loss to comprehend this because it is not their field. I am in the process of making corrections to the patent application one of my scientist relatives is helping me file, but getting the patent isn't going to change my situation. In months now I have yet to find a single person who is interested in this at all, almost certainly because everyone I try and ask about it immediately assumes that I am crazy. Try telling someone you can make The Matrix and see what happens... Yeah...

So, what would you do if you discovered how to create "The Matrix", and knew for certain it worked because you had actually been designing games that worked that were exactly that for decades and just hadn't realized it? Who do you tell? Who would listen to such a thing (people at Universities don't answer back). How do you get to make your revolutionary games where there is nobody else who realizes that they are revolutionary games? Who do you take this too? Who will listen, or even respond back to find out what you are talking about?

It's been months and as far as I can tell, there isn't a person in the world who cares. Who cares? Who do I go to with this? Please respond here or send me an e-mail if you know of anyone who would be interested in the world's first functioning scientific modeling simulation of a god.

kavik_kang@hotmail.com

Actually those games were forgotten by those who make games. The computer game industry decided right from the beginning that "board games" were not relevant to what they did. So they began re-inventing the wheel in the mid-1980's. I know, I was there, right from the beginning and all along. I had been working at one of the major hobbyist game companies when the industry collapsed (because of Magic: The Gathering and Warhammer, not computer games although they would have done us in a few years later anyway), The modern game industry "reset" its game design knowledge in the mid-1980's. I, as I said, through an accident of history, wound up carrying the ASL/SFB torch onward by myself because that industry and type of "Big" game (not later board games that you are talking about, the "Big Three" era was gone and nobody else ever did anything even remotely close ever again, there are no other games like ASL or SFB) was gone. The games and many of their players are certainly still around today, but I am among the very few that has continued on designing games in that tradition for all these years. I am a part of that community, I know these people and have seen many of them regularly my entire life at conventions. In fact, I was even lucky enough to meet two of the original Avalon Hill guys that were still around the cons in the 1980's.

I really am serious about this. The core of the ASL/SFB game design is representing real-time in a table-top game. This "treadmill of time" is what has inadvertently been continuously worked on and designed for about 70 years now. With this "treadmill of time", what is essentially the "3rd Generation" (ASL/SFB/My Universe), I can literally plan the future of all "living things" in the "reality" of the simulation. Potentially for all of eternity, with a far more powerful version than what I have had functioning for years already in most of my games. This really amounts to a new theory of how time might function based primarily on the concept of "moments of time containing reality". It is much like The Matrix, but the accurate description is that it is the world's first functioning simulation of a god. That is exactly what it is. And it is not a theory, it functions and has been functioning for 20 years now. I only recently recognized it for what it really is. This isn't just me, this really is the result of about 70 years of continuous work done by people who had no idea that this is what they were ultimately working on.

If anyone knows who I should go to with something like this, I really would appreciate it. So far it seems impossible to find anyone who cares at all, or is even willing to so much as glance at it. It's not a theory, I know it works. It's how I make games and how I have made games for over 20 years now. My "next generation" method of Steve Cole's next generation method of Avalon Hill's method of representing real time within games.

So who do you tell when you've accidentally made a functioning scientific modeling simulation of a god?

Samoth: I am 48. I think I explained the progression of where this came from very well. I know all about SFB, I am well-known as one of the top SFB experts in the world. That's where my vast knowledge of the ASL/SFB lineage and system comes from. I had "retired" from trying to make my universe several years ago, and was brought back into it about half a year ago. I started to write a blog, which led to the discovery of what has always been in my games, the "third generation" of the ASL, then SFB, and now my version of that "treadmill of time". And board games and computer games are the same exact thing, there is no difference. A simulation is a simulation. I have the clear impression that you have never played a "big three" game before. They are not the simple "board games" that most believe they are. I discuss much of this forgotten history in the blog that led me to going back to my game universe to finish it. "The Matrix" is an excellent description of it, because it functions in the same way, but as I said the correct description is that it is a functioning simulation of a god.

Here is some forgotten history that I really don't want to repeat here... http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarcMichalik/787769/

Hodgman, it is like The Matrix is several key ways that make the comparison unavoidable, the most easy to describe being that things only exist within the simulation when they are needed to perform a task. When a thing is not needed, it does not exist. So if I have told the you character to sneeze three days from now, then 3 days from now you will be summoned into existence just to sneeze, and then you will cease to exist until needed again. That is one way in which this system resembles the matrix. But what it actually is, is a functioning scientific model of a god.

As for "approach to simulations"... As I said, I am a child of the ASL/SFB "grandfather of all modern game design" line of "The Big Three" era of hobbyist gaming. There was once an emerging science called "scientific modeling" that was based on our work, that you recognize as "Will Wright's style" (the simple form he uses was known by the phrase "Needs, Wants, & Desires". I have been at this almost non-stop since the early 1980's, there are very few people on this planet with as much experience and knowledge of simulation design as I have. This is the whole problem, people get downright offended by this for some reason. I really don't want to go down this road of talking about me, especially when your industry has forgotten who we were and so my background is meaningless too you. I learned that a long time ago.

Really, I'd really just like to know who you go to about something like this. Who would be interested? You'd think it would be easy, but coming up with something like this is like some kind of curse. You just can't get anyone to even speak about it. They either ignore you or even become offended, for some reason, that you would dare to think that you could do such a thing. These last few months really have been amazing!

I'd really just like to know who you go to with something like this? Who would be interested and listen? I already know I can have these pointless arguments about me all I want, all I have to do is mention the subject. I really am not wanting to do that. Just assume I am a lunatic and whoever I take it too will easily see that put me in my place... Who should I see for that? Who, who also might be able to do something with it if it were real, would be willing to even look at it to put me in my place. Show me how little I know about simulation design? Where do I find that person?

I say show, don't tell :)
Provide a demo that proves your accomplishement, and if it lives up to what you describe, I think you'll find an entire world ready to listen to you.

Right now I am still hoping to find someone in a position to make something happen with it to show them. I will actually be willing to give public examples of it in the near future if I still can't find anyone in a good position to take a look at it. I am still in the process of filing the patent on it, they wanted two corrections that a relative is helping me resubmit. So I am working towards this last resort of just going public with it, but for now I have a few more things like this to try until that happens.