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Unreliable Narrator

hen people shout at me in the street, they usually start with, ‘Hey, interactive movie guy!’ In the moments that follow, shaking my head and fleeing, I attempt to worm my way out of this uncomfortable descriptor by thinking about what makes games and movies different, and the instances where the former borrows from the latter. As an industry we often reach for the comparison to our older, more beautiful sibling in Hollywood. But outside those pleas to economics

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