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Today I have been thinking about FarmVille an what it might be like to play it if the characters and climate influenced the game dynamics? Farmville has a ‘time to crop life’ dynamic but it appears to have nothing on the scale of daisyworld which is designed to simulate the ecology evident in life on Earth.

I am currently reviewing the following app. Daisyworld https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Daisyworld Tap here to open app CREDITS AND REFERENCES The Daisyworld model was first proposed and implemented by Lovelock and Andrew Watson. The original Gaia hypothesis is due to Lovelock. Watson, A.J., and J.E. Lovelock, 1983, "Biological homeostasis of the global environment: the  parable of Daisyworld", Tellus 35B, 286-289. (The original paper by Watson and Lovelock introducing the Daisyworld model.) Wikipedia also has a high-level description of the Daisyworld model:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisyworld. CITATION:  Novak, M. and Wilensky, U. (2006). NetLogo Daisyworld model.  http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Daisyworld  Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Please cite the NetLogo software as: Wilensky, U. (1999). N...

control and visions of good and evil... Garden of Earthly Delights  Heironomous Bosch ©️ Dave McKean Good Omens series by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett   ©️ Amazon Prime and BBC https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-02-14/good-omens-opening-credits-titles-references-easter-eggs-amazon-prime-video/

App Jam 2  Police   Withdrawal   Difficult   Police... To police and control...  To get a crowd to withdraw (break their spirit)... To make it difficult for the crowd to riot, impose obedience and take control (game mechanic).  Or  Police... as representative of state Power and Control... to make  it difficult for power to control and force crowd to withdrawal or alternatively the crowd could withdraw support in order that they could take control. I am interested in Non violent mechanisms of control for the purpose of subversion.  Starting with police, policing and the abuse of power... Middle East Conflict  Terrorism   Cybernetics - Police crowd control    http://lib.post.ca.gov/Publications/CrowdMgtGuidelines.pdf Daisyworld    Gaia Hypothesis, ...

From the deepest darkest recess of the mind comes Police-Withdrawal-Difficult..  Rough Brainstorm (01)  Week one kicks of the App Jam with the themes Police-Withdrawal-Difficult. Police Law Changes in Rules HR Dept - Sack crap police officers Papers Please Monitor Torture The Fuzz Sting - Tantric Riot Police Fancŷ Dress 3rd Richt - Black & Red Detection Freedom Unregulated Hands off No rules Anarchy Escape Room Donald Trump Trump Towers Prisoner Thief Regulation Self Regulation Cybernetics theory Control systems  Control  Crowd Control  Boys in Blue The Pigs Animal Farm. Major All animals are equal (but some are more equal than others) Four legs good/two legs bad 1984 Big Brother is watching you...  Reality TV  Patriarch  Matriarch  Authority  Abuse of authority coppers cops  handcuffs  jail  Difficult Hard Puzzle Treacherous Simple Easy Tres Dif...