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Ars Ludicra is an independent video game poetry project from C. A. Knight.

The project started in 2020 as an effort to create new understandings of both poetry and literary translation by translating poetry into video games, otherwise known as Collection One. With Collection Two, Ludicra expanded to include original works of video game poetry, a showcase of selected “Art Carts” created by other artists, and a new space for “Special Features”. The two collections are known as Ars Ludicra’s “Homecoming” series.

Each poem has been developed for the Nintendo Game Boy family of consoles using the development environments GB Studio and/or GBDK-2020. All are playable on and have been strictly created around the constraints of the handhelds. On this website, the poems are playable in your browser using web-based emulation, regardless of device.