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The Right Food for the Right Game

Hello. C J here. I’m fond of making my games realistic, especially when it comes to food. My main training is in a ton of everything but actually really just biochemistry and storytelling. I’ve been working for ages on my own field of biochemistry, vitamin chemistry. Every scientist contributes one thing, names it and then repeats it forever to make sure it still works. Sometimes things change, like constants or the colour of sunlight. It has happened. This one is my one big contribution.

My complete theorem of how to eat in order to be healthy is Cooking With a Wolf – Food for the Busy Chef. This is my cookbook and it’s available as a free PDF right now in the books downloads page link. It will be in print and I’ll make money from home printing and hand binding it. It’ll probably cost $10 a copy and I keep most of that. The food’s all recreation of famous restaurant food done at home for very little money and no time investment.

Anyway, my point is that I know what vitamins are good for what job. I’m working this into my video game Dragon Engine as the health and special move stamina bars. I’ll outline the system here in brief.

Heat
The game’s health bar. You can’t fight if it’s full of heat. Protein like trail mix and chicken fix it. Sleeping also fixed it.

Story
The social special move bar is filled with fat like cream and nut butter.

Move
The combat special combat move bar is filled with fast burn carbohydrates like sugar.

Craft
The bar for resource gathering, shopping and crafting is filled with slow burn carbohydrates like pasta and bread.

Rest
This bar decreases while awake and also while doing some social crafting tasks. Sleep and caffeine fix it.

I thought this was realistic. You player Stamina stat increases your Heat bar’s length and your Resolve stat increases the other four. My thought though was that these are useful in real life.

So, which one does playing Minecraft?

Okay, so amazing question. First up, which genre of Minecraft? Combat is all fast-twitch muscle fibre. That means that fighting and using special moves takes sugar. I’d go with the game’s suggestion and do a cookie with chocolate chips. Crafting is the opposite. I always want a bagel with butter and nothing else when I’m building houses or dungeons. And yes, I hand place all my own blocks. I will be using Bedrock Editor for terrain and trees. I will not be doing the structure design in it or the interior furniture design. Those are done in live Creative mode and saved to file using the structure block.

Story maps go great with coffee or tea and so they’re probably a morning job for most people. I can have coffee and tea up until 8:30 PM and sleep fine at 9:30 PM. I have literally no idea why. My metabolism is weird. It’s like six genomes worth of metabolism that don’t line up ever with each other. Anyway, so a story map goes well with tea. Minecraft very adamantly doesn’t have an in-built story so the story bar and milk fat are never used. This I find both appealing and dangerous.

Not having a story is appealing because it means I can do something with my time that isn’t narrative. It’s dangerous because I know I need narrative to be healthy. I’m assuming most people do. If you want a good story I have some free video game themed fantasy novels that are all ages friendly and involve realistic ratios of genders in the main characters. And finally, the big one, redstone.

Redstone is a complex mathematical task. Coding Java I find is similar. Video game design and game design in general are normally presented to a game designer as impossible, unsolvable mathematical puzzles. Then you solve one and take a long break. This is real life’s version of a combat engine. We here in the gaming industry sword fight numbers to make them compliant with our goals and grand designs. That needs protein and a good night’s sleep. Code and number theory are related and both take meat pizza. I was taught that by a math teacher back in high school and it’s still true.

And this is what to eat for what game you’re playing. Find some cool recipes in my free PDF download of Cooking With a Wolf – Food for the Busy Chef. Also, I’m packaging an image of one of my most recent Minecraft builds here for fun. I’d have instructions for how to make a house like this but I did it by eye and it doesn’t have blueprints. I just threw yellow things together until it was house shaped. This is for use in my Fantasy Plus server I’m working on setting up.

Good. It’s always time for coffee.



C J Mcpherson

 


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