Flower is a PlayStation 3 video game. It was developed by
thatgamecompany, designed by Jenova Chen (pictured), and announced at
the 2007 Tokyo Game Show. Flower was released on February 12, 2009, via
the PlayStation Network. The game was intended as a spiritual successor
to flOw, a previous title by Chen and thatgamecompany. In it, the
player controls the wind, blowing a flower petal through the air using
the movement of the game controller. Flying close to flowers results in
the player's petal being followed by other flower petals. Approaching
flowers may also have side-effects on the game world, such as bringing
vibrant color to previously dead fields or activating stationary
windmills. The game features no text or dialogue, forming a narrative
arc primarily through visual representation and emotional cues. Flower
was primarily intended to provoke positive emotions in the player,
rather than to be a challenging and "fun" game. The team viewed their
efforts as creating a work of art, removing gameplay elements and
mechanics that were not provoking the desired response in the players.
Flower was a critical success, to the surprise of the developers.
Reviewers praised the game's music, visuals, and gameplay, calling it a
unique and compelling emotional experience. It was named the best
independent game of 2009 at the Spike Video Game Awards and by Playboy,
and won the "Casual Game of the Year" award by the Academy of
Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1276:
Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a Free Imperial City.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg>
1841:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control
of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had
been taken into slavery illegally.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_%281841%29>
1842:
Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi ,
premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco>
1862:
American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two
powered ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought
to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads>
1945:
World War II: A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers
started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II>
1956:
Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations in Tbilisi,
Georgia, who where protesting Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's
de-Stalinization policy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
filigree (n):
1. A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver
twisted wire.
2. A design resembling such intricate ornamentation
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filigree>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its
great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of
ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it
and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom
is eternal, immutable.
--Shashi Tharoor
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