Walden has been adapted into a video game, and you can play it right now
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Like so many great books spoiled by mediocre high school classes, view Walden is richer and quirkier when revisited as an adult. Yeah, it poetically recaps Henry David Thoreau’s two years (and some change) in the woods of New England, just like you remember, but the later sections (the ones you maybe skimmed as a teenager) are a mishmash of ideas and styles both experimental and exploratory. Walden is, and I say this without pretension, a fun read. So it shouldn’t be that surprising that somebody would eventually adapt it into a video game.
Under the guidance of Tracy Fullerton — professor and chair of the USC Interactive Media & Games Division and director of the USC’s Game Innovation Lab — Walden (colon the video game) has been constructed…
