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- Financial advice from game designer Stephen Gillmurphy: bet your Bitcoin on Happy Elf games. Cozy puzzles where you kick bright gems. His theory: the closer the world gets to the bombs, the safer cozy gets.
- Old horror games punished curiosity. New ones don't need a reason at all, says designer Stephen Gillmurphy: wrong job, wrong shift, wrong neighborhood, and that's the whole crime. He calls it failing the vibe check.
- None of it was planned, says game designer Stephen Gillmurphy. Not the curtain allergy, not the policeman who keeps reappearing. You just keep rotating the pieces until it feels inevitable.
- Horror games don't hide a metaphor underneath. They ARE the metaphor, says designer Stephen Gillmurphy: literally getting chased by guys whose shirts say the economy.
