Virtual world

Yeah.

Now, I'm going to confine mine to mechs that I've played in the game, not anything having to do with virtual world.

And not anything having to do with books that I haven't read or a board game I've never played.

Just so you know my parameters, because I want to be able to speak with common vocabulary.

Because if I told you that the Loki Prime is the best there is and the best there was, the best there ever will be, from my virtual world experience, even people who remember virtual world would be like, Damien, you are fucking on crack.

And I will point out, I got to the semifinals in a tournament using that shit.

and everybody was like what the hell so you know it's not the girl peter it's the building uh

And at longer range, it carries an LB5x autocannon, which hits a lot harder than any other AC5 I've seen in the game.

So that's part of the discovery.

And I think one of the scene that, you know, it's explaining a lot what is the relationship that we have, um, with the, we can say the virtual world and the real world, is that he tries to tell...

Wh- when he discovers that Gao maybe passed away, he try to tell to the girlfriend, only in the video game, because he was, he kinda was not able to do it, uh, like in real life or trying to use that scene to, you know, to, to maybe make it m- less difficult for him.

And I found very interesting the, the sensibility that he uses for, like you said, for the discovery, for, you know, the research of his friends and also trying to figure out what really happened because he's not sure what, what really he's there, because nobody's gonna give him real answers.

But, uh, the next one you will just, you know, like some memes, jokes, and whatever.

So basically, it has a drastic shift, you know, between, like, people's emotions, and I think this is, like, the part that I really want to portray.

Yeah, and one quick last one is, uh- Relying on that, that I think despite exploring this, uh, at the beginning, like cold or mediated w- virtual world, then you lands on a moment of real tender and, you know, connection between strangers, between human beings.

So did you always know that these were... that's where the story should end up?

Well, I wouldn't say you have to do any of these things.

Virtual worlds are works of art the designers um work um the design's trying to say something to the players through the design um and if what you're trying to say to the players doesn't involve any sense of risk or any sense of um established establishing camaraderie or anything like that then you don't need any of those things really it's you don't need those if what you're trying to say um It's important for it.

So it was important in Mud.

So when I rewrote it as Mud 2, I kept that in, the permadeath, because it was important, because it was something that I wanted to say through the game world.

And that's their defence.

It's a way of explaining what they... what they're doing in terms that doesn't make it sound like they're some kind of weirdos and I'm so male, I'm so female, but actually it's to do with identity exploration.

And that's what virtual worlds are always about.

That's why we created them.

We see the trains, airports.

Now, the virtual world is becoming more and more important.

Today, about 3 billion people in the world, out of 8 billion people, are spending more than half of their waking life in the virtual world.

So, virtual, I mean, they work remotely, they're on social networks, they're receiving, you know, education or healthcare.

Entertainment.

If you think about, you know, famous bloggers, there are people with million, 10 million, 100 million, a billion subscribers.

The number of 1 billion subscribers bloggers is 100 times bigger than the number of 1 million resident cities.

How should the city position itself in this huge virtual world, which we don't see in physical lives, but actually people who live in the city, they spend more and more of their lives, we said more than half, most of the people in the virtual world.