''Today I Die'' is a short 2008
Flash game
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created by Argentine game designer
Daniel Benmergui
Daniel Benmergui is an independent video game development, independent game designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina known for the creation of art games such as ''Today I Die'', ''I Wish I Were the Moon'', and ''Storyteller (computer game), Storytel ...
. The game has been classified as an
art game
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and requires the player to pull apart and reconstruct a poem by clicking on a number of words contained within it, changing its narrative meaning piece by piece.
Kevin Veale has referred to it as an example of "interactive cinema."
Reception
The game was chosen as a finalist for the Nuovo Award for innovative games at the 2010
Independent Games Festival
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and also chosen for the
Experimental Gameplay Workshop in 2009.
Gus Mastrapa of the website
The A.V. Club
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called it "imaginative" but called the nostalgia-inducing graphics "heavy-handed".
References
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External links
''Today I Die'' on Benmergui's personal website
2008 video games
Art games
Browser games
Flash games
Puzzle video games
Video games developed in Argentina
Single-player video games