Proteus is a 2013 exploration and walking simulator video game designed
and created by Ed Key and David Kanaga for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and
Linux. Versions for the PlayStation 3 video game console and the Vita
handheld console were developed by Curve Studios. Key first conceived
Proteus as an open-ended role-playing game, but redesigned it to be
"nontraditional and nonviolent", without prescribed goals. The flora and
fauna of the procedurally generated world (pictured) emit unique musical
signatures that trigger changes to the background music as the player
moves about the world. Before its full release, Proteus won the prize
for Best Audio at the 2011 IndieCade awards. In 2012 it was a finalist
for the Independent Games Festival's Nuovo Award and was featured in an
exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Following its release,
critics praised the game, especially for its audio features, although
some criticised its brevity and limited replayability. Journalists
debated whether Proteus should be described as a video game.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_%28video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1461:
During the Wars of the Roses, Yorkist troops defeated
Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in Yorkshire, England, one of
the largest land battles ever fought in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton>
1951:
The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam, by Rodgers
and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I>
1974:
A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a
vast collection of terracotta statues depicting the armies of the first
Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army>
2017:
British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the
Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's
withdrawal from the European Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
implore:
1. (transitive)
2. To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
3. To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to
beseech, to entreat.
4. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to
express an earnest or urgent plea.
5. (obsolete, rare) An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently;
an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implore>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A slow singer, but loading each phrase With history’s
overtones, love, joy And grief learned by his dark tribe In other
orchards and passed on Instinctively as they are now, But fresh always
with new tears.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>