There's a moment in every project I care about when something happens that I didn't plan. On Vesper it happened late in the development. We'd spent years deriving every detail of the world from a single premise — the biosphere has collapsed — and by that...
Here's a test for any world you're building. It doesn't matter if it's a film, a game, a novel, a VR experience. Ask this question: how do people deal with their dead? If you don't have an answer, you don&...
In Vesper, light is alive. Bioluminescent cultures sealed in translucent vessels. Warm, amber. Not fire — something closer to the glow inside a living body. You feed these lamps. Fermented algae, organic matter. Skip a day, the light dims. Skip a week, it dies. Light has a daily cost, like bread....
A few years ago we were asked to build something for Davos. The Red Cross wanted an experience that would make world leaders feel what civilians feel in a war zone. Heads of state. CEOs. Billionaires. People whose job is to not be moved. We didn't show them...
Remove the animals. All of them. Not just the big ones — all of them. No meat, no milk, no eggs. People eat insects, fungi, engineered seeds. Human blood is drawn, stored, and traded between communities. It's become currency. Now listen. No birds in the morning. No dogs in...
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