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Isabella Yang

Ghosts over the Water: How we designed a historical video game that takes players into 19th century Japan

October 17, 2022

“It happened during the sixth month of the sixth year of Kaei, on a windless summer day; I was only a little over twenty. For over two hundred years, Edo had stood as our political center. For over two hundred years, Japan had been in peace and prosperity… At least on the surface. No foreigners. […]

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