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Experiencing Poetry in Game Poems — Issue #1: First Moves

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Show Notes

Games can be anything, but do they really need to be anything more than Snake??

Today we're talking about Game Poems — Issue #1: First Moves by so many people!!! A game about learning what a game poem is and playing Snake. Read/play Game Poems — Issue #1: First Moves on itch.io or the Game Poems website!!! Follow Game Poems on their website!

Discussed in the episode: Game Poems Magazine - Resources

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari ---

Timecodes:

(00:00) - Modern Major Child

(03:23) - Game Poems Issue #1: First Moves

(05:26) - The philosophy of game poems

(15:55) - It's over when...

(18:49) - Find the game in the show notes!!

(19:57) - Stand outs

(20:12) - Like I Never Moved at All by Adam Pype and Victor Kraus

(23:33) - SNAKISMS 2: Snakes We Live By, Volume 1: A-M by Pippin Barr

(28:25) - [começar coisas terminadas] by Isaques Sanchez

(33:59) - Asunder by Ash Rezvani, Brittany Westlund, Kate Lloyd

(37:26) - Firsts by Geoffrey Mugford

(43:12) - Gambit by Caitlin DeRosa

(44:58) - On Second Thought by Tereza Kotěšovcová

(47:01) - A look of glass stops you. by Brendan Allen

(50:33) - Big Takeaways

(51:00) - Kim's Big Takeaway

(52:41) - AJ's Big Takeaway

(54:33) - Chase's Big Takeaway

(57:26) - Closing the magazine

(01:00:24) - Kim tells a story

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