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In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an islandDeleuze and Guattar ‘em up
Deleuze and Guattar ‘em up
Image credit:Richard A Carter / Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Richard A Carter / Rock Paper Shotgun
There are no dungeons or fell beasts to wrangle with, however. You exist here simply to explore, or be explored, roaming the landscape using the arrow keys (the angled perspective is a little unwieldy) or staying put to witness the passage of other entities such as birds and sailboats. There are snatches of music against a steady wash of animal and mineral noise. As you and the world move through each other, encounters produce or modify lines of poetry along the bottom of the view, with underlined text you can click to develop or sometimes, reduce the possibilities of a phrase - it feels a little as though you’re asking somebody to repeat themselves, to be a little more specific.
“Each entity featured in Agentia experiences, senses, or simply witnesses the world in ways very different to that of the human mind and body,” explainsthe project’s web page. “Rather than suggest their being can be expressed directly through language, Agentia (Medieval Latin for agency, ability, to act, perform, broadly construed) uses found language excerpted from related works of literature, creating a collage of registers (often strange and enigmatic), that can hint at such more-than-human stories - including, inevitably, their entangled relations with our own.
