Digital Home Thoughts: Journey to Wild Divine

Conclusions
Whether you want to focus more in school, keep your cool during rush hour, or walk down the mystic's path, the Wild Divine offers an experience applicable beyond the time spent in the game. The skills learned can transcend the game world and extend into everyday life. It will be interesting to see this type of self-help entertainment software mature and merge with existing and yet to be invented devices and technology. As a software engineer, musician, and photographer, I am constantly looking at the role technology plays in expanding our potential, creativity and consciousness.

The Wild Divine Project is encouraging other creative types to develop new applications with the lightstone. One person in the community released an API that can be used to access the data from the lightstone so that programmers can create their own games and applications using the biofeedback device as the input mechanism. There is also a beta in the Wild Divine forums of a multi-player experience where people can control some kind of event collectively.

The Wild Divine Project is intended to be released as a trilogy and has two more games planned that use the lightstone. The next game called "Wisdom Quest" is due out this Fall. Perhaps it is the Zen philosophy, but somehow I am reminded of another trilogy. In "The Matrix", skills are downloaded in a near instantaneous burst. Our current games are already giving us an edge up in many skill areas. So called simulations are being used from drivers education to military applications. While I don't think that we will be mastering kung-fu or helicopter piloting any time soon, Wild Divine offers a way to gain a higher degree of control over the subtle inner workings of ourselves.

Jason Kravitz is a software engineer specializing in the creative potential of the human mind and its connection to the subtle spaces around us. Jason is the creator of the Pocket PC game DevilDarts and an avid photographer. His photo blog can be seen on Aminus3.com.