sounds more like a simulation than a game, but all credit to anyone willing to try something new in the electronic mediums

I know my beans and my beans know me.

It'll be like Journey Escape for the Atari but instead of avoiding groupies and stuff you're dodging tax collectors and soldiers while collecting power-ups handed out by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Assuming by the fact this "game" doesn't seem to need to be based on any of his actual writings.

/Transcendentalism... what a joke
//Maybe the theme song to the game will be Existential Blues

L.A. noire 2?

The article forgot to mention that the book "Walden" is one of the most boring reads since The Odyssey of Homer. Two eight balls of coke and a pound of meth snorted off the hottest stripper in the world's ass wouldn't keep you awake through the first 3 paragraphs.

OmniView: The article forgot to mention that the book "Walden" is one of the most boring reads since The Odyssey of Homer

Twilight is also the worst romance since Pride and Prejudice.

The team behind the video game Walden said it "posits a new genre of play, in which reflection and insight play an important role in the player experience". While the player travels through the virtual world of Walden, and deals with everyday life at Walden Pond, they will also be asked, the team said, to "focus on the deeper meaning behind events that transpire in the world. By attending to these events, the player is able to gain insight into the natural world, and into connections that permeate the experience of life at Walden."

Oh so they are ripping off Dear Esther

The team behind the video game Walden said it "posits a new genre of play, in which reflection and insight play an important role in the player experience". While the player travels through the virtual world of Walden, and deals with everyday life at Walden Pond, they will also be asked, the team said, to "focus on the deeper meaning behind events that transpire in the world. By attending to these events, the player is able to gain insight into the natural world, and into connections that permeate the experience of life at Walden."

The only way to win, is not to play.

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Came to post this myself. Alas, the reflexes aren't what they were.

Witty Riposte! Witty Riposte!

They already made a game based on Walden. It's called Harvest Moon.

/DNRTFA

Saiga410: The team behind the video game Walden said it "posits a new genre of play, in which reflection and insight play an important role in the player experience". While the player travels through the virtual world of Walden, and deals with everyday life at Walden Pond, they will also be asked, the team said, to "focus on the deeper meaning behind events that transpire in the world. By attending to these events, the player is able to gain insight into the natural world, and into connections that permeate the experience of life at Walden."

Oh so they are ripping off Dear Esther

I thought the same thing while reading TFA, 'Oh, so it's Dear Esther, but with real events. Cool I guess.'
/highly enjoyed Dear Esther
//will probably check this out as well

Call of Duty: Walden Warfare?

/I'd play it.

What's next - Grand Theft Dali Lama ?

Would make an awesome photochop contest.....

Achievement Unlocked: Live Deliberately!

Thoreau was not an anarchist.

West of Cabin

You are standing in the woods west of a small cabin, with a simple front door.
There is a pond here.

Meh, they've done videogames about authors and literary works before.

1^st level: Successfully go into the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life... and rescue the princess.

2^nd level: Realize that such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. And rescue the princess.

Meh, I prefer "John Muir Pro Walking 2012"

I played it, it's dull. The first level is just making pencils, then there's like three levels where you sit by a pond and do nothing, then you go back to town and that level plays a bit like the Sims, then you die of tuberculosis. I found the ending a bit unsatisfying.

Saiga410: The team behind the video game Walden said it "posits a new genre of play, in which reflection and insight play an important role in the player experience". While the player travels through the virtual world of Walden, and deals with everyday life at Walden Pond, they will also be asked, the team said, to "focus on the deeper meaning behind events that transpire in the world. By attending to these events, the player is able to gain insight into the natural world, and into connections that permeate the experience of life at Walden."

Oh so they are ripping off Dear Esther


Or perhaps drawing inspiration from older titles such as Scrutiny in the Great Round, The Dark Eye, Portal (1986), Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure, The Garden, Curio Strip, Descending Armies of Light, Photopia, If Monks had Macs, L-Zone and many others that I can't be bothered to dig up from my amnesia-addled memory.

It sounds like it could be a fascinating project and as it is funded by a grant I would be very pleased to see it released as freeware. I do love these projects. Focus on the journey and forget about the goal. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it is very much mine.

LockeOak: West of Cabin

You are standing in the woods west of a small cabin, with a simple front door.
There is a pond lake here. A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows

FTFY

This is why government shiat often fails - timidity where audacity is called for. If they were going to do this, they should have spent the bucks to have American McGee develop it, Tim Burton do the art design, and Chris Walken do voice work in it.

This sounds worse than Dear Esther.

And that takes a special kind of suck.

LockeOak: West of Cabin

You are standing in the woods west of a small cabin, with a simple front door.
There is a pond here.

You move west. There is a garden there. There is a ground hog in the garden.