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For the second of these, @nsuttner.bsky.social talks with Josef Fares about Ico, wordless storytelling, and why developers shouldn't listen too closely to players.

And third: A look behind the scenes at how we worked with Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga on the cover art for our Shadow of the Colossus story.

Second: We talked to six former Sony employees about The Last Guardian’s decade in development, and how one of them didn’t like moving it from PS3 to PS4.

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For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

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