#316 Citizen Sleeper with Gareth Damian Martin - Listen - The Game

#316 Citizen Sleeper with Gareth Damian Martin

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Dirk and David meet with Gareth Damian Martin, creator of In Other Waters and Citizen Sleeper. They discuss Gareth’s design journey, as well as the process of creating Citizen Sleeper. Topics include the use of tabletop mechanics in video games, when to obscure probabilities, using literary prose effectively, and how a game of Citizen Sleeper develops as it’s played.

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