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Diving Bell

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Videogame development is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Videogame design is a search for interactions to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. It is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg (adapted)

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ohmygod are you alright

(suggested by @meldckn)

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Low Mem Sky

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Tennis for Two

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Slave of God

(suggested by @maxkreminski)

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Koan

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The videogame designer’s mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

T. S. Eliot (adapted)

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Everything

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Fleeing Forward

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Limbo

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Seasonal Mixtape

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The Wanderer

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The videogame designer doesn’t invent. She listens.

Jean Cocteau (adapted)

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What Remains of Edith Finch

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Canabalt

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Kentucky Route Zero