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Our process was often a push-and-pull between their more mature narrative composition, and my desire for brevity and easily grokable player choices. Then I worked with writer Lindsay Ishihiro to give voice to them all and add much more subtlety to the interactions. I also wanted the demo to be replayable, because living many different lives and seeing the story from various points of view is a big part of the full game. I worked to make sure some things were possible in that first year for instance exploring outside the colony can be done, but it isn't easy to get your skills high enough. Sarah Northway, Northway Games: Thanks Gavin! The Exocolonist demo is literally just the first year of ten, with a little extra tagged on to the end. Was it relatively simple to slice off that first year of the game as a taster, or is the opening section of the game proper different in any way? Nintendo Life: First off, congratulations on the demo, it does a great job of introducing all the characters and mechanics and offering a rounded experience on its own.

After playing a Steam demo of Teenage Exocolonist, we recently caught up with developer Sarah Northway to chat about letting players tell their own stories, the narrative integration of its card-based confrontations and the memories formed from them, and the challenges of avoiding binary design tropes.

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