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105: Making History with Josh Sawyer (Pentiment)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Art of Texting in Adventure Games

I actually kind of felt like it solves a problem that I kind of always have with these kinds of games, which is that the text needs to come in in some way. It's awkward if every time you talk to someone, the text is just there in an adventure gamer and RPG. And here it felt like, oh my god, like, they've rethought this entire concept and they're using it in a way to be artistic. There were a lot of systems that I was surprised to see rethought in ways that I didn't expect. In Fallout New Vegas, we used skills or, you know, like all the designers did a great job of making an incredible amount of use

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