Games by the Book Video Game Adaptations of Literary Works in the Hayden Library
The Hayden Library is hosting an interactive exhibition starting on September 7th. Visitors to the second floor Humanities Library will be able to play a selection of videogames adapting literary works from Shakespeare to 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. 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's plays; carry out an exercise of introspection based on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus; or revisit the events of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Games by the Book, curated by Clara Fernández-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. More details can be found at: http://trope-tank.mit.edu/games_by_the_book/ The exhibit is sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor, the MIT Council of the Arts, the MIT Game Lab, and the Electronic Literature Organization and Comparative Media Studies. -- Michelle Baildon Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society Librarian Interim Political Science Selector MIT Libraries Hayden Library: 14S-230 / Dewey Library: E53-168N 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel. 617-253-9352 Fax 617-253-2464
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