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105: Making History with Josh Sawyer (Pentiment)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Animation in Text Writing

"I love seeing the sh come in, sorry, at this pace. I love that it takes time to do," says designer Doug Jones. "There was a bit of a standoffishness and kind of a, an unwillingness to compromise past a certain point." The game's first block comes in as print; when you talk to characters like Attic or Guy they have settings where their text comes in faster. When you talk to Brother Folkbert his is significantly slower because he has a much simpler hand. There are also differences between different hands for scribes and printers.

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