Play this Poem: ‘Today I Die’ by Daniel Benmergui
The internet, Our collective subconscious reproduced in copper and silicon, readily offers the banal and the disgusting for your mindless consumption (if you want to remain stomach-full, don’t click on any of Pintsize’s links). My mind immediately drifted to the plethora of webcomics when coming up with examples for those adjectives, but I don’t think it’s a controversial point. The evidence abounds for other areas as well.
Its archives for the profound, however, are populated at a far less rapid clip. A large part of my motivation for starting this blog is to help bring attention to the richness that already exists, or is being added. To that end, I am pleased to offer you this link:
Today I Die, a little web-based game by Daniel Benmergui.
I don’t want to say too much, since it’s a brilliant, beautiful experience that will take up only 15-20 minutes of your day, but hopefully leave you much enriched. Suffice it to say that this is a ‘game’ inasmuch as there is interaction and a defined sequence of events, but that’s not really the point. The real stuff of wonder is the subtle poetry; the source of both mechanic and narrative in this piece.
If you enjoy it, but you’re looking for more of a game, be sure to try the melancholy I Wish I Were the Moon, by the same creator.
