Mastering the Matrixby Sam Chupp Mastering the Matrixby Sam
Chupp Mastering the Matrix By Sam Chupp'mA-trik-s&z/ Etymology:
Latin, female animal used for breeding, parent plant, from
matr-, mater 1 : something within or from which something else
originates, develops, or takes form I have been working on
world-building and story-creation since I was 8 years old. One
of the things I've learned about creating for games is that it
is important to create only that which you truly need to create.
The trick is knowing what you will need to create and what you
can leave behind. Sometimes having just a name or a tiny sliver
of an idea is enough to get you through the game session. In
this column, I intend to first talk about my Matrix method and
then apply it to several possible world-building and story-
creation tasks to demonstrate the strength of this method. What
is the Matrix? The central idea of the Matrix is that everything
is related. Because of this, you can take a very sketchy amount
of info and, using what y