Sugary Chamomile

An overly sugary cup of chamomile, flowing to soothe the mind and heart. 

A masterpiece empty in each of its components, one that breathes, shivers, hungers for more.

An elegant, precise madness in the words uttered by the dreams of a reality that forgot its name.

Chamomile is the tonic of dreams, and dreams a tonic of reality.

Sugar is the Purpose that sleeps hidden in our Misery, our sour insatiability

for yet another dream to make reality.

Drink up, focus your mind on its deep, mellow flavor.

Dream of a dream, of a vision, 

dream of something that does not exist.

Try to forget the way back home.

My name is Davide Pellegrini, I am 23 and I study philosophy, I am particularly interested in Philosophy of Art and Post-Humanism. I am not a computer science student, and all coding I have learned and practiced in the past years was studied in complete autonomy.

I love videogames, and I believe games to be a form of art.

One day, after growing tired of writing novels and short stories, I decided to undertake game development, and I discovered the unending complexity of creating an audio-visual, interactive way of narrating a story.

Throughout my games I have built and explored the kingdom of Ithaca through a surreal interpretation of the myth of Ulysses, one that I feel particularly connected to. Jacob Stedman, Ludwig Artemis, and the Academy of Ithaca have been a progressive uncovering of a mythos unknown even to myself, one that I am happy to have created - for it is not only my own, but yours as well, as players, spectators and interpreters.

 - Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses