![]() ![]() marketing director 1989-1990), Mensa International (national coordinator project Inkslinger Mensa Ednl. is separately incorporated from Mensa in Georgia, but the majority of the board members are also members of Mensa in Georgia. Corporation Retired Executives (publicity chairman, 1986nat. Georgia Gifted Students Scholarship Fund, Inc. ![]() John passed away a few years ago, and bequeathed the residual of his estate to this fund. In its final year of operation, John himself, supplied the money for the scholarships to keep the fund alive. Project Inkslinger aims to get books to wherever they are needed. In the mid 80's, several needy students received scholarship aid through his efforts. Project Inkslinger, begun when a region fell short of books during a flood, is one of Mensa’s rare organized efforts to achieve anything in particular beyond enjoyment. This scholarship fund was envisioned by a local Mensa in Georgia member, John B. Each year, the Mensa Foundation awards college scholarships, awards prizes for research in intelligence, sponsors colloquia, and supports other activities including training of teachers of the gifted. Mensa member donations, as well as other outside donations, support this independent 501-c(3) organization. Mensa Education and Research Foundation, Inc. For more details click hereĮach year for the last several years, local members volunteer to be helpers in the Metro-Altanta MathCounts competitions. In the past few years, flooding in the Midwest and in Georgia has created quite a need for this project. On the other, it understands the horrific potential of language, its capacity to evoke terrifying and hopefully alien situations that live in the mind long after the words have finished.This is an ongoing nationwide Mensa project to collect and supply new and good used books to libraries in need. On the one hand, Inkslinger is about the ambiguity that exists in writing as well as the pitfalls of interpreting others-how messy and imprecise this can often be. This, I think, is why I’m digging it so much. I won’t spoil exactly what happens, only that it involves typing through a ritual that would make even Dionysus wince, and that each keystroke lands with precisely the weight the subject matter demands. ![]() The approach bears greatest fruit in the last section of the game. Møller and Jacob Hvid Amstrup, show what can be achieved with just a few carefully chosen elements rather than the deluge usually found in bigger titles. Alongside the haunting soundtrack which sounds like vintage ballroom music slowed to a drone-like crawl, the two-person team, Lucas A. The Christen Købke portraits used for most of the characters help make Inkslinger feel pleasingly grubby and lived-in, tweaked just a little so they look almost like etchings. Project Inkslinger is gearing up for major involvement with restocking libraries around the gulf region when they are rebuilt. A monochromatic color palette is used to compellingly eerie effect alongside paintings sourced from The National Gallery of Denmark's open database, SMK Open. As a player, you don’t do much in the text-adventure sections except soak up a story which is complimented by the game’s evocative minimalist visuals. You type these linguistic triggers out too, but it almost feels unfair to do so, as if you’re making the young scribe relive a grim and harrowing set of events she’d rather forget. It’s relayed with zip and flair, but also economy, gesturing towards a world beyond the stultifying office that the protagonist Yearnmore (I told you the names were great) finds herself in.Īt various points, Yearnmore is yanked from reality into a flashback by what some of her clients say. As you might expect for a game about words, the writing is excellent. You’ll meet Smoothie, a cockney-accented teenager who works in the fishmonger, Tetherheart, mother to an estranged son, as well as various members of guilds whose stories interlink in satisfying and unfortunate ways. Inkslinger is all about the art of understanding-finding the right words for thorny and often delicate subjects.īrassknee’s so-called wordshop is also the perfect place to encounter the residents of the brilliantly named Isle Shammer, a coastal town located in the wider (also excellently titled) region of Nomania. You type these out just as the inkslinger would, but the game isn’t interested in asking you to do so quickly, or at great volume like other typing games. The actual game stems from interpreting their needs, and then selecting a specific word that you think best corresponds to their brief. Your job is to type, firing out words in the form of letters, poems, and songs for clientele who walk into Brassknee’s wordshop, your place of employment. At first glance, the setting seems like a straightforwardly dour Victorian city, but as the above uncanny detail suggests, this is a stranger place than you’ll find in history books. ![]()
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