#mark signorelli

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Islands by Rosden Shadow

In 2018, Rosden Shadow made 87 PuzzleScript games over an 87 day period. Islands is the apex of this monumental undertaking, a game that encourages the slow discovery of nine interconnected puzzle islands, each showcasing different mechanics.

Other games in the series typically opt for discrete levels instead, an approach I honestly found a bit less daunting!

[tail-feathers]

Final stanzas “The Monk by the Sea” by Mark Anthony Signorelli

[spilladabalia]

Swell - Get High

[ihearthings]

Poetry is thus unabashedly anthropocentric; it brazenly defies the overwhelming tendency of modern thought to regard the pursuit of truth as a course which moves increasingly away from subjective experience and towards a universalism ideally divested of any specific human perspective. Poetry assumes, to the contrary, that truth about the world is to be found in those specially intense and intimate experiences which life brings from time to time, experiences which are necessarily from some particular human perspective. The work of Wordsworth would be particularly rich in examples serving to verify this point; there, one finds a walk through a field of daffodils or a return to a scenic landscape once visited become moments of profound insight, when, as Wordsworth himself puts its, “we see into the life of things.” In naming things, the poet states the truth about things, and in naming things as they appear in our common experience, the poet affirms that our common experience is a potential avenue to truthfulness, a level of understanding at which reality can be found. These assumptions constitute what I will call the “poetic mentality.”

Mark Signorelli, "The Poet as Namer", Anamnesis (seems like a good mentality to cultivate, poet or no)