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A jam submission

Inferno 2.0.View project page

Inferno 2.0: Yohanna Joseph Waliya
Submitted by WaliyaYohannaJoseph — 25 days, 13 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Experimentation#44.4004.400
Interactivity#43.4003.400
Poetry#44.2004.200
Overall#63.6403.640
Overall#63.4003.400
Polish#112.8002.800

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Name you'd like to be published under, if accepted
Yohanna Joseph Waliya

Short bio, written in the third person
***About the digital poet***

Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer,
novelist, playwright, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global
South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow and
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow . He writes in English and French.
Among his works are : La révolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play),
Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l'Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus
(digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry),
@KorzakD (Twitterbot playwright),Climatophosis (digital poetry:
Winner of DHAward2020 as the best use Digital humanities for fun)
etc.. He is a lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and
Translation Studies, University of Calabar as well as a Postgraduate
student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.His research
interests cover distant writing, Digital Poetry, Twitterbot-poetry,
Twitterature, language discourse etc.

Artist Statement, about your piece
Inferno 2.0 is a French and an English glitch biblical poetry (GBP) built based on the Judeo-christian teachings about sinners' eternity.
It is inspired specifically by the epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians 5 :20-21, to the Corinthians 6 :9-10(first letter),to the Romans 6 :21,23, the Gospel according to St. Mathew 5 :22 and Saint Luke 17 :37 and Dante's Divine Comedy.

Sin leads to hell fire for wherever the carcass is,
there will the eagles be gathered together.

The Judeo-christian's Yahweh shows his power and anger in the old-times by thunderbolt and earthquakes to punish the sinners.

This digital poetry points to the wages of sin is death in the hell fire.
Hence, the title "Inferno 2.0". This game poetry is countering the concepts and philosophy of Dante Alighieri's poems-Purgatario and Inferno in the Divine Comedy. There is no Purgatory because there is no trace of it in the Holy Bible. There's only one Hell fire.
Therefore, no one that goes into the Hell Fire will be able to be saved.

It is played or read by hovering, straining looking on each glitch and clicking on each glitch word with an intention to save sinners out of the hell fire. Then, hear and see the behaviour of the glitch.

Inferno 2.0. can also be called digital glitch
biblical poetry(DGBP) and digital sound poetry, a sub-genre of the Biblical Digital poetry (BDP) and e-poetry and Web based game.

What do you need from us, when giving feedback on your piece?
I need general feebacks on my works.

Questions, Comments, Concerns?
Sharing a zoom festival to launch the publication.

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Comments

Host(+1)

Hi Yohanna! 

Let me begin by saying that I'm so impressed and intrigued by this piece. I absolutely love the play with language and symbol, and the use of emojis (playful, casual) when dealing with such a heavy text. My only want for a bigger screen (there was text I couldn't quite catch). I think you've done a great job at re-glyph-ing the language/orthographies, distilling them again to sound and image. Well done!

Here's a little playthrough I did so that you can see live reaction:

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for the encouraging words! One can play the game poetry by clicking on the glitch text fast to gather all the glitch words into one place. The eagles flying  as  metaphor of carcasses around. You know in Africa if you set a fire in the bush, you will see a lot of birds hovering over the smoke to eat the carcasses or insects of their choice. The game will display full if you play it on a browser. Just right click to open it in a new  browser page!