{"id":2649,"date":"2012-09-09T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2012-09-09T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:01:03","slug":"games-by-the-book-an-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/09\/games-by-the-book-an-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Games by the Book, an Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Games by the Book
\nVideogame Adaptations of Literary Works in the Hayden Library<\/h4>\n

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The Hayden Library (in MIT’s Building 14) is hosting an interactive exhibition starting on September 7th. Visitors to the second floor will be able to play four videogames that are adapted from literary works, from Sophocles and Shakespeare to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Douglas Adams. The exhibit explores the range of approaches taken to create video games of literary works, The result is often whimsical, turning the worlds of these stories into spaces to be explored, often transforming them according video game conventions.<\/p>\n

The games featured in the exhibit invite players to become Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, dodging drunken partygoers in his way to meet Gatsby; explore the world of Shakespeare\u2019s plays; carry out an exercise of introspection based on Sophocles\u2019 Oedipus at Colonus; or revisit the events of The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy.<\/p>\n

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Games by the Book, curated by Clara Fern\u00e1ndez-Vara and Nick Montfort, will be open to the public until October 8th, in the Humanities library, on the 2nd floor of the Hayden Library. Further details can be found at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/trope-tank.mit.edu\/games_by_the_book\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The exhibit is sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor, the MIT Council of the Arts, the MIT Game Lab, the Electronic Literature Organization, and Comparative Media Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Games by the Book Videogame Adaptations of Literary Works in the Hayden Library The Hayden Library (in MIT’s Building 14) is hosting an interactive exhibition starting on September 7th. Visitors to the second floor will be able to play four videogames that are adapted from literary works, from Sophocles and Shakespeare to F. Scott Fitzgerald … <\/p>\n

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