Chicken Jockey Scribe Racing & Other Scholastic Sports of the Quillverse
Chicken Jockey Scribe Racing & Other Scholastic Sports of the Quillverse presents the first major creative work and video game published by Cody Lestelle since completing an M.A. thesis in Political Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Futures Studies program — Cultivating LAG-Free Economics & World(s) Peace through AI-Assisted Games and Sports: An Indigenous Futurisms Approach to Abolishing Lust, Anger, and Greed (LAG) from War (Lestelle, 2023).
Developed during the Citizens Assemble! game jam organized by One World or None with the Global Game Jam, the project began as an experiment in civic worldbuilding and evolved through integration with Brian Foo’s Citizen DJ (Library of Congress) to become a comprehensive framework for interactive visionary fiction. The resulting CJSR engine transforms writing, music sampling, and mythmaking into scholastic sports where learners become worldbuilders, remixers, and cosmic citizens
Set within the Quillverse — an educational and mythopoetic cosmos stretching from the Hawaiian Kingdom to the Saraswati Supercluster — Chicken Jockey Scribe Racing models a new paradigm for AI-assisted creativity and planetary pedagogy. Students collaborate as cryptoface correspondents, lorekeepers, and dream cartographers, mapping mortal and interstellar relations through narrative play.
By fusing Indigenous futurisms, open-source design, and public archives, this talk invites educators to explore how network sovereignty and AI as creative ally can help cultivate empathy, collaboration, and world peace — one story, one sport, and one shared dream at a time.
Cody Lestelle, TimeKnot Games, US
Cody Lestelle: Father, athlete, game designer. Seeker and sower of wonder. Serial fail-forward entrepreneur and teacher. Cody began his journey through the labyrinth of the modern U.S. education system shortly following his emergence from the mothership known as his mama in Seattle, WA, USA in the year of the Earth Dragon. For elementary school, Cody was a dolphin; middle school, a cougar; high school, a warrior. Cody was a Triton back when Edmonds was still a community college. A.A. transfer degree in hand, Cody gained his Husky form at UW Seattle for his B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas (magna cum laude, departmental honors). Cody’s roots extended to the peoples, plants, and struggles of Mexico profundo in Oaxaca via UniTierra, the University of the Earth. Studying for a Ph.D. with the Political Science department at UH Manoa earned Cody his Rainbow Warrior form when he cashed out with an M.A. thesis titled, “Cultivating LAG-Free Economics & World(s) Peace through AI-Assisted Games and Sports: An Indigenous Futurisms Approach to Abolishing Lust, Anger, and Greed (LAG) from War” (Lestelle, 2023). Presently, Cody is building 7ABCs.com & TimeKnot Games & Media, a joint effort growing a global association of family-owned and operated businesses where students build wealth while studying for International Baccalaureate diplomas utilizing a combination of their own custom virtual learning environments and a worldwide land trust where cooperative businesses, video games, sports, and tabletop role-playing games serve as our campuses, infrastructure, and textbooks. Cody still believes that we are impossible, other worlds are unstoppable.
