Puzzmo co-creator Zach Gage on building newspaper games that can last forever
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"Every game I design is meant to be a sandbox. At the lowest level, someone coming in should just feel comfortable playing around."
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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir
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They are both well aware of the irony of two engineers developing a parody engineering game, but that hasn’t stopped Cillín Farrell and Neil Mackenzie from devoting the majority of their spare time doing just that. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways.
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