This chapter draws on metaphors and themes developed in the television show Westworld to stage a close reading of the games Minecraft and SimEarth, using Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s interface theories to examine the ways earth-centered games diverge from Bernard Stiegler’s theory of epiphylogenesis and the co-constitutive evolution of man and tool, to propose a theory I have coined, supraphylogenesis, wherein, instead of an equal evolution, one surpassed the other; man surpasses the capabilities of technics, or technics and in these games their equivalent, the earth, exceed humanity (Wardrip-Fruin 2009; Stiegler 1998). This chapter seeks to trouble our understandings of video games that create a relationship between the player and the earth and what types of systems and mechanics these types of games prioritize. Are earth-based games only successful if the relationship that is cultivated falls into strict categories wherein the earth either exists as a tool for player (human) control, creativity, or knowledge, or as a form of capital? In this binary between man and machine, must earth always fall into the same category as machine? Finally, what of games that do not fall into this binary, and instead prioritize the earth and its autonomy?

本章利用电视节目《西部世界》中的隐喻和主题来仔细阅读《我的世界》和《模拟地球》游戏，并使用诺亚·沃德里普·弗鲁因的界面理论来检验以地球为中心的游戏与伯纳德·斯蒂格勒的附生发生理论和共同进化理论的分歧。 -人与工具的本构进化，提出了我创造的一种理论，超系统发生，其中，一个超越了另一个，而不是平等的进化；人类超越了技术的能力，在这些游戏中，地球超越了人类（Wardrip-Fruin 2009；Stiegler 1998）。本章旨在解决我们对在玩家和地球之间建立关系的视频游戏的理解，以及这些类型的游戏优先考虑哪些类型的系统和机制。只有当所培养的关系属于严格的类别（其中地球作为玩家（人类）控制、创造力或知识的工具，或者作为资本形式存在）时，基于地球的游戏才会成功吗？在人与机器的二元关系中，地球必须始终与机器属于同一类别吗？最后，那些不属于这种二元结构、而是优先考虑地球及其自治的游戏会怎样呢？