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PATRICK’S PARABOX

Developer/publisher Patrick Traynor

Format PC

Origin US

Release 2020

When submitted his first commercial game for this year’s IGF awards, he did so more in hope than expectation. He was delighted when it made the shortlist in the Excellence In Design category alongside a host of titles that, comparatively speaking, were household names. When he won – beating the likes of , and Grand Prize winner – it was an eyebrow-raiser for Traynor, too. “It was surreal,” he tells us, modestly adding that even being

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