A comedy series takes this literally. Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer.
On some computers there's a mysterious file that has all of the (world/universe's)? object variables, such as a person/object's location or height, age, etc, and magic is performed by manipulating those via verbal macros.
New spells are researched by literally programming and debugging.
It's a fun series, but it feels the author's done about as much as he can with it.
On some computers there's a mysterious file that has all of the (world/universe's)? object variables, such as a person/object's location or height, age, etc, and magic is performed by manipulating those via verbal macros.
New spells are researched by literally programming and debugging.
It's a fun series, but it feels the author's done about as much as he can with it.