As much as I ‘d like to believe otherwise, it isn’t possible to make regular updates to the Avant Game List if I insist on review each game before I post it. So the new policy is going to be post now, review later.

So, via selectparks:

Neil Hennsessy’s Basho’s Frogger is a is a ludic response to Canadian poet Derek Beaulieu’s translation of the works of Matsuo Bashō; the most famous poet of Edo period Japan and master of the brief and clear haiku.

I wish I knew more about this piece- particularly which haiku inspired it. Honestly this feels like a piece out of Ian’s Games-in-Translation class at Georgia Tech and is very similar to Jeff Crouse’s Laüstic (which I need to see if he has a playable web version of).

Basho’s Frogger has been added to the Avant Game List.

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