download here:
—Passage_v3_Windows.exe
—Passage_v3_MacOSX.dmg
control notes:
- Press any button (or key) to start the game.
- Use left analog stick (or arrow keys) to move character (up, down, left, right).
- F (on keyboard) to toggle fullscreen mode.
- B (on keyboard) to adjust screen blow-up factor.
- Q or ESC (on keyboard) to quit.
Spend 5 minutes in this game and you will probably cry. You may begin to understand the pull a video game can have on a child, on a lonely adult, on a teenager in college.
Or you may just think it is a silly waste of time, when you could have been scrubbing your toilet or cleaning the dust from under your fridge.
In that case don’t even bother reading this:
XVII (I do not love you…)
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
~ Pablo Neruda