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Poem 21 is based on a 1986 William Barton program (in English) called “The Mad Poet,” published in Commodore Power/Play but later redone with different Spanish words by Amìlcar Romaro. His Spanish version, Poema 21, was published in 1988 in the magazine K64. This is the first of two alternative sets of data given in that issue. The following are available: The original (Spanish) BASIC program, the translated (English) BASIC program, the original program as a PRG file, and the translated program as a PRG file. The PRG files can be run on Commodore 64 emulators; an in-browser emulator (VICE.js) is provided in the current publication. Translation to English by Nick Montfort.

The Kaos electronic literature magazine was published on floppy disk by the French company Kaos as a new year electronic postcard from 1991 to 1993. Realised by Jean-Pierre Balpe, the father of automatic literary text generation, the issue #3 released in January 1993 for Apple Mac proposes generators by different authors (in French and one in English by Jasper). (Source: http://imal.org/en/resurrection/kaos-3-action-poetique-jean-pierre-balpe)

Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work.

Rob Swigart calls Directions "a quasi-sentimental pseudo-scientific hyperpoem." Centered on the periodic table of the elements, Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work. (Macintosh only, requires HyperCard)

(Source: Eastgate Systems)

The continual sound -- part murmur, part jackhammer -- of a mother's voice binds past, present, and possible futures. The unnamed narrator struggles with death, birth, and with the lost loves -- Alwin, J. R., and the Deep Sea Diver -- who populate her psychic landscape. Sensitive, whimsical, and moving. (Source: Eastgate Systems)

L.A. Noire (pronounced /ˈnwɑr/) is a neo-noir detective video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was initially released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms on 17 May 2011; a Microsoft Windows port was later released on 8 November 2011. In 2017 it was announced that a remastered version would be released in November for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and HTC Vive.

L.A. Noire is set in Los Angeles in 1947 and challenges the player, controlling a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer, to solve a range of cases across five divisions. Players must investigate crime scenes for clues, follow up leads, and interrogate suspects, and the players' success at these activities will impact how much of each cases' story is revealed.

L.A. Noire is an action-adventure neo-noir crime game played from a third-person perspective. Players complete cases—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. The game also features a mode which allows players to freely roam the open world. In this mode, players can also engage in optional activities. The game assigns players with cases that they must solve. After each case, players receive a rating of 1–5 stars depending on their performance in both interrogations and searching for clues. Suspects and witnesses in a case can be interrogated for information, when the interviewee responds, players are given the option to either believe them, doubt them, or accuse them of lying. If players accuse them of lying, they must submit evidence to prove it. When interrogating two suspects at the police station, players may decide who to charge with the crime; charging the wrong suspect affects players' end rating. 

The game draws heavily from both the plot and aesthetic elements of film noir, stylistic films made popular in the 1940s and 1950s that share similar visual styles and themes, including crime and moral ambiguity. The game uses a distinctive colour palette, but in homage to film noir it includes the option to play the game in black and white. Various plot elements reference the major themes of gum-shoe detective and mobster stories such as Key Largo, Chinatown, The Untouchables, The Black Dahlia, and L.A. Confidential.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Gabriel Knight is a series of point-and-click adventure games developed and released by Sierra On-Line in the 1990s.

(Source: Wikipedia)

“Voies de fait” by Jean-Marie Dutey exploits the reader’s sensation of a lack of control to sent a strong political message. The reader has a physical and direct role in the poem. Like in a video game, the reader moves about the poem using the arrow keys on his or her keyboard. The reader’s avatar runs between or on the stanzas, which are arranged in blocks. At first it seems as though the stanzas continue infinitely. There is only one blue stanza—the rest are grey—to provide some sort of starting point. There are a total of five columns and five rows of stanzas. The stanzas repeat themselves in every direction so that if the reader’s avatar begins at the blue stanza and heads to the right, the reader will see the four stanzas that follow, and then again the blue stanza with once again the following stanzas. Here is the complete text (beginning with the blue stanza): VIVRE HEROS C’EST GRAND ARMEE OBEIR TIEDE IDIOT FRERE VERTE A CET QUE L‘ JE NE IBM QUE L’ ORDRE ENFER BANDE FERME ECHEC ENFIN CACHE PLUS ! L’ŒIL GAGNE C’EST CIVIL CRANE HEIGE BOIRE GRAVE CIBLE FENDU BLEUE L’AIR QUAND OTAGE PAR L’ SUR L’ QUAND TU ES D’UNE ACIER ECRAN L’EAU MORT ? HEURE TORDU VIDEO BAULE TIERS NOTRE COMME AOBOT VILLE MONDE PASSE SI LE TUEUR PUNIE QUE L’ ETAIT FUTUR QUE L’ RAYEE ISLAM AUSSI ETAIT OMBRE DE LA ROULE AGITE BANNI GRISE CARTE FLASH ATOME AUCUN ECLAT BETON BLANC EVADE AUTRE BOUGE VOIBRE TU AS DE L’ APPEL BOMBE GEODE MOINS OGIVE DE LA RAYON ATI- FROID POLIE TERRE LASER FUSEE MAMAN HOMME PLUIE MACHII SALUE MAMAN SANG- NOIRE L’AIR MAUVE OU TU FROID JAPON RUGIT QUE L’ ES ? ET CHAIR AVANT ET SE AVION PAPA ? ROTIE APRES BRISE LANCE The text can be read in multiple directions because there is no temporal reading, rather a spatial reading. Each stanza paints a strong image but is independent of the others around it to complete this image. The ensemble of images created by the stanzas tells the story of the Japanese bombings during WWII. The narrator sides evidently with the civilian victims who lost their lives due to a war in which they played no part. The title refers to the legal term “assault” or, more specifically, the illegal executive action taken by a governing body. The structure of the poem creates a link between the victims who could not escape and the reader who is lost amidst these lines.