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The A Slow Year games were made with the understanding that poetry can resist being obvious, that it can be expressive within tight constraints, that it can, like a video game, challenge its reader to work through it, that it can be vague but specific, harsh yet beautiful. The autumn game is just a slow game of waiting for a leaf to fall off a tree and catching it right on time. The spring game's goal is to match thunder with lightning in a replica Tissot T22.2.386.31 WoMen's watch rainstorm. The summer game is the but daunting challenge to take a proper nap, a first-person game seen from behind drooping eyelids.Each game was made to run on the Atari but will run on Windows or Macintosh computers.

Each is tough and accompanied with only a haiku for instructions.The Autumn instruction manual:Magic hour treeBreeze grows to gust, then recoilsPile meets falling leafWinter's directions:Hibernal sunriseHot coffee slowly turns coldSavor 'til day breakThese games are neither obvious nor exciting in the way video games that are exciting usually are. Their prevailing aesthetic is one of lovely lethargy; their primary mode of play replica Tissot T22.1.456.21 WoMen's watch involves watching and waiting for the leaf to fall, for the coffee to cool, for the storm to crack.How A Game Can Resemble A Poem”They're real games and they're hard,” Bogost said, who is wary of someone mistaking his creations for concept art or “net art crap” you just stare at.

Like many a good poem, he suspects, their reader or player may not have them figured out at first pass. “Maybe these will be things that sort of well up later,” he said. “That's kind of the same experience you have with poetry. You read it. You don't know why you're reading it. You're reading it because you were assigned it in a college class or you're bored or you like poetry and you are reading some new poetry, and it doesn't really do its replica Tissot T008.010.44.261.00 Ladie's watches work for you right away. It kind of cashes out later. You see something or have an experience and this line or this theme or this image from a poem kind of rushes back to you and helps you think through this thing you're experiencing.”Bogost looks at the video games he's played and he sees poetry in some of them. Take Tetris, for example.