Chaim Gingold

Author of Building SimCity ( Made @EarthPrimer, designed Spore Creature Creator; PhD from @UCSC.

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

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[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Brief book report: BUILDING SIM CITY: How to Put the World in a Machine, by Chaim Gingold, is an exhilarating read.

It is one of the best origin stories ever told and the best account I've seen of how innovation actually occurs in computerdom. 🧵

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@michaelgarfield By "barnyard understanding" I think Vannevar Bush meant hands-on experience. The gritty hands-on know-how of a tinkerer and builder as opposed to theoretical knowledge. He prized and respected both.

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@nnnnicholas Hi, hmm, I don't know if MIT Press ever does this.

[Christopher Gates @CGates123]

A little less than a year ago, I began working on something I felt was truly unique.

Today it launches🧵

[Michael Garfield 🔮 @michaelgarfield]

Our world is defined by emergent properties that can only be explored through simulation, yet the modern era hasn't integrated the deep philosophical challenges this poses: we need multiple approaches; prediction is necessary but insufficient; no one story is enough...
(4/n)

[Caves of Qud 1.0 out now! @cavesofqud]

17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here

https://t.co/0e5XhribKy

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@ballingt @tophtucker @maryrosecook Thanks, Thomas! @tophtucker hosted a conversation at Observable with me around when the book came out. Had a blast.

[celine nguyen 📖 ◡ 📖 @mynameisceline]

for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️

[1zumi 0KAN0 @haeckel]

@cgingold A friend of mine lived next door to Will Wright, so I went to visit. On the left is Yoneda Takashi, a legend in the Japanese gaming world, next to him is digital artist Mimura Chie, and on the far right is me. The photographer of the three of us and our neighbor is Ikeda Tomoya, who drew the flying toaster, and they are all members of the Enzan-Hoshigumi team, which has been developing Macintosh apps in Japan since 1985.
https://t.co/BdwYX22wP0

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@haeckel Wow! What year is this photo from? I'm curious if it's Oakland or Piedmont or somewhere else?

[Retronauts @retronauts]

Live on the free feed: @ubersaurus and author @cgingold get into the nitty gritty of SimCity

https://t.co/85Fvuitx2Q

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

Tomorrow: BUILDING SIMCITY chat with Will Wright!
Some cellular automata for you: Langton Loops.

[ROMchip @ROMchip_Journal]

📢 THIS FRIDAY: @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET.

🎟️RSVP Now! https://t.co/KQDNkmpXS3

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@ROMchip_Journal @StupidFunWill @mitpress

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@mickeymcmanus @ABCNetwork @hirshberg @stewartbrand Gotta find it! @stewartbrand didn't remember it, but I did find convincing documentation corroborating the basics of Doreen Gehry Nelson's recollection of it.

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@mitpress @arbesman @Lux_Capital

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

Had fun talking with @arbesman about Maxis, SimCity, and the history of computing on this podcast!

[Lux Capital @Lux_Capital]

How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵

[Lux Capital @Lux_Capital]

How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@JanPaul123 https://t.co/TZq4PMOZNR

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@xardox @blamstrain @MicropolisWeb You should try uploading a video clip directly into Twitter so people just see it playing. It's mesmerizing stuff. Like https://t.co/CIA7WzEFzH

[saharan / さはら @shr_id]

Life Universe https://t.co/DLCTLNTqII

Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from.

無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev

[Chaim Gingold @cgingold]

@xardox @blamstrain @MicropolisWeb So cool!