This is a game which will make you feel relaxed. Forget about challenges and being frustrated of failure. Just give yourself to the balance of the nature. You will realize when you harmonize yourself with her that you had spent hours next to the lake, only fishing. And you will feel much, much better!
From its boring gameplay loop to design decisions implicitly contradicting Thoreau's greater messages, USC Game Innovation Lab has crafted an ill-conceived adaptation.
Same. The Walden/Civil Disobedience duo is a must-read imo.
I think the issue is this college gaming lab were building a wilderness simulation in Unity and then looked for inspiration to 'gamify' it enough to make a sellable product. Naturally, they looked to the public domain first.
Neil writes: "As gamers we're used to seeing new titles arrive in remastered or rehashed form, as developers take much loved classics from yesteryear and bring them right up to date for a modern audience. That normally means going back a decade or two for the source material. Walden, a game on Xbox though goes further - way back to the original Henry David Thoreau book from 1854, before bringing it all into the virtual world."
"Walden, a Game could have been a culmination of my interests as a researcher in the field of art and humanities: it is a narrative video game about a poet activist who critiqued slavery and the newly-developed modern prison system. However, most of my time spent on the digital Walden Pond has oscillated between boredom and sheer frustration." - Adam@EB
that's crazy they made a game out of this book. i read this years ago on the Play Store. funny that a little over a week ago i ran into the actual book at an antique shop, had to buy it, 5 bucks. great book, so was on the duty of civil disobedience. great review!