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Retrospectives in Game Design: Abe’s Oddysee

  • March 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Review

I remember the day I first bought a video game guidebook. I’d gone along with my mother to W.H. Smiths, and I’d seen it on a shelf, next to a ton of other random literary tripe and paraphernalia. “Final Fantasy VII walkthrough,” it said. It also spoke of cheats, and guides to a few other [ READ MORE ]

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Christos is a journalist, and he is also aware he is writing pretentiously in the third person. He writes words about games, books, and the financial services sector. He wants to write the next Great British Sci-Fi Novel, but fears it will be adapted into the 2020 Green Party manifesto.
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