The game that lets you imagine a city
Since he was about seven years old, Mark Vanhoenacker has liked to imagine his own city. "Its location changes occasionally, as does its name. But no matter where I draw it or what I call it, it's the same city to me."
Vanhoenacker is a British Airways pilot, and the author of two of my favourite books. The first, Skyfaring, is a glorious hymn to flying, and to doing a job that you love. The second, Imagine a City, is a pilot's perspective on cities real and, in this case, imagined.
Why a city? For Vanhoenacker, it's a place to travel to when he's sad or worried, or when "I don't wish to think about what I don't like about myself." It's the melancholic starting point for a generous, enveloping, far-ranging book. You must read it. But anyway...
Nguồn: Eurogamer
