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Unreliable Narrator

My party trick used to be explaining at length why film director Alfred Hitchcock was the world’s first great game designer. Since 2020 cancelled all the parties, shall we do it here instead? Grab a cocktail and settle in.

Have you seen The Birds? It has a lot to teach us about game design and story. How so? Stories live in the minds of their audience. The story is: what the audience thinks is happening now, what they desire to happen next, the action they

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