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Sam Lake, gaming's genre-bending auteur, on breaking reality (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




Thank-you. I had just watched the trailer to Control: Ultimate Edition as part of Humble Bundle's Heroines. The article mentioned Remedy Entertainment, and that got me to watch it again:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGgEoIVi7A

Game writing is a mystery to me. One only has limited chances to work on a blockbuster. How does one iterate, again and again, mistakes shorn, wriggled, and cast off the wayside, to rise and do again?

Lots of planning, killer taste, and a lifetime of observations, maybe.




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