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# Experimental game Run uses words as platforms
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/experimental-game-run-uses-words-platforms/
- Published: 2012-08-08T15:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:58:08.000Z
- Description: Chris Whitman’s Run combines several experimental minigames to tell a story where you, the ludologist, help capture sunshine to enable villagers to survive three years without light. Selections where you read text as you platform across it recall Danielewski’s word design play in House of Leaves. Th
- Author: Rachel Helps
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Chris Whitman’s *Run* combines several experimental minigames to tell a story where you, the ludologist, help capture sunshine to enable villagers to survive three years without light. Selections where you read text as you platform across it recall Danielewski’s word design play in *House of Leaves*. The retro-styled interludes combine familiar gameplay with new strategies.

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