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Growing the industry with evening-sized games

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Former Chinese Room lead Andrew Crawshaw on his romantic metal-detecting adventure that explores how people define success

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Andrew Crawshaw discusses the disadvantages of “increasingly time-hungry” games that try to monopolize players' lives and attention and leave little room for variety of experience. He also points to some of the underserved niches available - for example, given the popularity of Let’s Plays, why not create official edited recaps of major games?

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