Via Galleycat I learn that:
The USC Cinematic Arts department actually has an information page on 'Walden, A Game' -- complete with trailer.
I'm not really sure about this -- I suppose it has potential, but it soundspretty exceptionally boring to me -- but then I'm not really much of a video game player (and, quite honestly, I never really got Walden, either), so obviously not the target audience; maybe this is what the kids are into .....
Still, I think they might make things more interesting -- and have considerably greater chances of commercial (and even educational) success -- if they joined forces (and projects) with, say, the MobZombies group ...... (Given recent mash-up trends, I'm surprised they didn't go with that in the first place.)
(Of course, they could also combine it with The Cat and the Coup, where you role-play ... Mohammed Mossadegh's cat, coaxing: "Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him" (though here, too, I think the odds of success would be greatly improved by adding MobZombies to the mix ...).)
The University of Southern California has received a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce a video game based on the work of Henry David Thoreau.(See also the full list of Arts in Media grants.)
The USC Cinematic Arts department actually has an information page on 'Walden, A Game' -- complete with trailer.
I'm not really sure about this -- I suppose it has potential, but it sounds
Still, I think they might make things more interesting -- and have considerably greater chances of commercial (and even educational) success -- if they joined forces (and projects) with, say, the MobZombies group ...... (Given recent mash-up trends, I'm surprised they didn't go with that in the first place.)
(Of course, they could also combine it with The Cat and the Coup, where you role-play ... Mohammed Mossadegh's cat, coaxing: "Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him" (though here, too, I think the odds of success would be greatly improved by adding MobZombies to the mix ...).)