parents: Thinking
A field matures from craft to discipline when a shared and precise professional language emerges and spreads.
- General arc across creative fields
- Early: copy winners and little talk of structure.
- Middle: identify recurring patterns, standardize methods.
- Mature: shared language occurs.
- Mature fields
- Architecture: geometry, proportion, orders.
- Music: harmony, counterpoint, form.
- Game industry
- Many successful cases, scattered terms, no industry wide precise professional language.
- Open questions
- Why language matters?
- Complex structure becomes recordable, analyzable, and composable.
- What a professional language needs?
- Why language matters?