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102: Playing on Your Own Terms with Wayward Strand

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Airship: A Game About Hanging Out With the Elderly

The team wanted to tell stories that were like more personal and more grounded, which is a funny word to use in this context. The literary genre of magic realism feels very relevant here because it's sort of like, as Jason said the ship was there first and then as we developed it we decided that that was kind of our only interest. We weren't even thinking it's set in Australia or it's set on earth or anything. And I think another, you knowwe're talking about their various emotional and social relationships and being in the final stages of their lives and their relationship to that. It made me want to volunteer some of my time to hang out with the elderly.

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