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    Piepacker

    Jul 08, 2021 4 minutes

    Playing retro games with other people isn’t so easy with busy lives and especially during a pandemic. Online solutions through emulation are also not especially accessible. Piepacker, which started off on Kickstarter and was funded in 20 hours, aims to change that as a new social platform where friends, family and colleagues can get together while playing a library of classic and retro-inspired games. We spoke to cofounder Benjamin Devienne to find out how it works.

    How did Piepacker come about?

    I’ve worked at EA, Ubisoft and Gameloft and then at Facebook and Twitch, which is how I got this mix of gaming and social, that’s really the foundation of what Piepacker is. When we

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