Thoreauly Hermitic: Walden, A Game

It's not often that anyone gets to ask "What would Thoreau's Walden look like as a game?" without it being a rambling speculative conversation in a pub. Indeed, you have to be in a certain sort of position - say a group of academics at a Californian University - for anyone to take that seriously, much less provide a $40,000 grant to make it happen. Fortunately, that's precisely what has come to pass, via a National Endowment For The Arts project. And so we are to get Philosophical Writer Living In the Woods Simulator or Walden, A Game. One of the speculative few, USC Associate Professor Tracy Fullerton, has been quoted as saying: “We anticipate a rich simulation of the woods, filled with the kind of detail that Thoreau so carefully noted in his writings.” So we look forward to that. We can also check out the trailer, which is below.

(Thanks to everyone who sent this in with a note saying "Jim, this seems like your sort of thing", and made me worry I am becoming a caricature of myself...)