The this week awarded the University of Southern California a $40,000 grant to develop a video game based on Henry David Thoreau’s writings. The game will recreate a 3-D environment of Walden Pond in which players “can conduct their own experiments in living deliberately,” according to the game’s . Gameplay involves traipsing through Walden Woods, picking berries, fishing the pond, and contemplating Thoreau’s ideas in his tiny cabin. The game’s developers hope to infuse reflection and insight into a new genre of play that embodies Thoreau’s experiment to “live as a part of nature and not apart from it.”聽
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