write order vs chaos

README.md

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 1. idk, C libraries, probably.
 1. Multiplayer map, distributed with consensus algorithm.
 1. Worldwide, serverless, MMORPG.
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+Read the overview.
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World/Players_are_Entropy.md

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+This is the opposite of a building game.
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+Dwarf Fortress presents a world which decays over time.
+The player must build, despite the decay.
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+Every Sims game invites a player to build with limited resources, then feeds entropy into the system.
+The player enforces order.
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+But the fishtank is order.
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+The fishtank will right itself.
+Every death creates an environment for flourishing later.
+The ecosystem will always pull itself back to the same old patterns, held up by a solid inter-linked food-chain.
+The fishtank appears chaotic, but it has rules.
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+The player must break the rules to be free.
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+The player's job is to get out of the goblin-filled caverns, and their only path ahead will be upsetting the natural balances within the cave.
+They must understand the system, then destroy it.
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+This should feel like the opposite of a building game.
+They must play on the system until it collapses in on itself.

overview.md

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 This was made to be read slowly, like a security-focussed man page with all the POSIX-compatibility flags removed.
 
+The scattered notes just add detail, so you can scan or ignore them.
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 Stage 1: Popular Populations
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 Sometimes the player must run back and find a new route.
 A lot of the time, the player can guess what's up a tunnel, just by what goes in and out.
 
+The world is order, [the player is chaos](World/Players_are_Entropy.md).
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 Layers
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