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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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