{"id":3857,"date":"2017-03-03T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/walden-has-been-adapted-into-a-video-game-and-you-can-play-it-right-now\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:10:23","slug":"walden-has-been-adapted-into-a-video-game-and-you-can-play-it-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/walden-has-been-adapted-into-a-video-game-and-you-can-play-it-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Walden has been adapted into a video game, and you can play it right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like so many great books spoiled by mediocre high school classes, view<\/a> Walden<\/em> is richer and quirkier when revisited as an adult. Yeah, it poetically recaps Henry David Thoreau\u2019s 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<\/em> is, and I say this without pretension, a fun read. So it shouldn\u2019t be that surprising that somebody would eventually adapt it into a video game.<\/p>\n

Under the guidance of Tracy Fullerton \u2014 professor and chair of the USC Interactive Media & Games Division and director of the USC\u2019s Game Innovation Lab \u2014 Walden <\/em>(colon the video game) has been constructed…<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s 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… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t