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Urban adventure art from around the world. Most of the artworks described here couldn’t be reenacted in GNE anyway.
What art would you make within GNE, if you were one of the gods?
What art would you make in real life, if you didn’t have to stir from your chair to do so?
One of the simplest things would be to build an infinite M. C. Escher house with four rooms arranged in a square. If you walk through the rooms clockwise (room 1, then 2, then 3, then 4…) then the second time you see room 1, it’s been renumbered room 5. So you can walk infinitely and the room numbers just keep increasing. Counterclockwise room 4 becomes room -1 and so on. As you leave objects in rooms to mark your trail, the objects change (multiply, decrease, mutate etc.) without user intervention.
I’d like to see a map of the GNE world with a black background, where you can see the players dart from hub to hub in real time. If the players are represented as points of light, then we could get some really lovely patterns going by drawing arcs between players based on friendship relationships. To add variation we could have the curve of the arc wax and wane dynamically.
Art should strive to provide something that the artist feels is missing (or remove something that the artist feels is too prevalent).
I would create something that had a cyclic behavior; perhaps multiple cycles which combine into larger cycles. Other than the periodic “second day” messages, and blue-sheet-in-a-hub messages from God, GNE lacks the ebbs and tides that build a sense of existing within something larger then ourselves.
Preferrably, these cyclic somethings should be detectable from most or all locations in the game (except, maybe, the train stations). Or, as the world we live in when we’re not in GNE, the forests, the town, the deserts, and, well, Bobbleton would have different, individual cycles of their own.
I envision Bobbleton with a 30 hr day cycle, and twin moons that contribute to a lasting twilight that shifts from aqua to salmon to violet.