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"Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"
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"Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·3 days ago
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Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack At Digital Dragons this year I somehow found myself attending a panel about games industry investment and publishing deals, featuring various senior M&A people gathered under the dread banner of "Capital Reality". It felt like visiting another planet, occupied by towering creatures of gold and green paper, who spoke an earwax-curdling vocabulary of phrases like "there's dry powder out there, but I'm seeing dealflop". The best practice when you are stranded on a strange new world is to bond with local lifeforms in the most elementary and primordial terms. In this case, I established a point of connection with Victor Lee, director of Europe investments for Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton. It turns out he is as weary and confused and petulant about the abundance of roguelike deckbuilders as I.…

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