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Flower and Climate Change
by Ian Bogost February 23, 2009
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Activism Games
I'm planning to write in much more detail elsewhere, soon, about thatgamecompany's new title Flower. For now, you can read Clive Thompson's take on the game at Wired.com, which boils down to this:
"OK, OK, I get it. Flower is about climate change."
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