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That said, Tan also cites The Last of Us as one of his influences. Even with everything that's on his plate already, Tan thinks about them now, and it's considerate responses like this that make it easy to see why he is making a game inspired by works that exude compassion like thatgamecompany's Journey and the movies of Studio Ghibli. Many larger studios don't invest time and resources into finding ways to make games more enjoyable for people with disabilities. I want to create this otherworldly, dreamlike feel, and dreams are weird.

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'One thing I've been thinking about lately was how to accommodate people with certain disabilities, like vision impairments, and how to improve their experience.' 'I just think about the player's experience,' he tells me. Tan is focused on delivering his vision first and foremost, rather than trying to cater to a target audience. I started being able to break down particles into their parts and examine how it worked.' Everything in games is just illusions and tricks. It was like I woke up from the matrix and saw the source. Once I started to get into texture panning and alpha multiplying my world was just expanded. 'I was watching some videos on particle systems and node graphs a while back, because I honestly had no clue how people create something like really pretty moving flames. I ask him to describe something really useful he has learned, and he explains a technical breakthrough to me. Tan is still learning something new every day, taking the good with the bad and trying to find workarounds if things won't translate the way he imagined. Occasionally I peep out and see what the reception is like, but I'm just trying to stay afloat.' I've kind of got the blinders on from now to release to just focus on creating the game. Luckily it's been mostly positive, but I take all of it with a grain of salt and try to stay objective about everything. Lots of feedback comes in when you put yourself out there, good and bad. I'm on my own developing for long stretches in a void, and never really know how people will respond to what I'm doing. 'It's really reassuring that I'm doing something right.

'I'm really glad that people are excited about the game,' he says.

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