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KEITA TAKAHASHI

Keita Takahashi’s gaming work has a certain strangeness that’s extremely distinctive. It sees you rolling tiny objects into a ball to get bigger and bigger and then eventually create stars, and getting toilets and telephones to join hands to kaboom together in colourful explosions. His games are some of the silliest you’ll ever play, and some of the most introspective. So how does Takahashi do it? What better way to find out than to ask the man himself? He’s even given us some artistic interpretations to illustrate his game-making journey.

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