Reflecting on 20 years of indie game design

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So when I say "art games", I mean games trying to be artistic for their own sake. This was a phenomenon that sprang up in the early 2010s, ...

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I'll just jump right in. I've been tinkering with game development for many years and through those years, I've had many failures.

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Raph Koster wants developers to get back to 'the game of making ...

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