![]() ![]() Microsoft is banking hard that a subscription service like this is the future of gaming, with the recent acquisition of Zenimax and proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard eyed to keeping the Game Pass content pipeline chugging along. Game Pass consistently adds great games every month, with recent favorites like Death’s Door, Psychonauts 2, Forza Horizon 5, and It Takes Two arriving on the service over the last year. Microsoft’s Netflix-style subscription service lets you download hundreds of games for your Xbox or PC for as little as $10 a month, and as long as you subscribe they’ll always be on your dashboard, waiting to be played. Growing up in the Orkney islands and playing among ancient burial sites sounds awesome.Xbox Game Pass has long been a bargain. It's also interesting seeing the same themes pop up in Damian Martin's life, as they walk me through the many twists and turns it has taken so far. It's a game that thinks a lot on othering and the idea of belonging, all against the backdrop of a fairly brutal capitalist reality, and clearly it's striking a chord with people. And there are more Citizen Sleeper plans they're already working on.īut what really fulfils Damian Martin is the feedback they're getting about the game: the heartfelt messages from people who feel seen by the new sci-fi role-playing game. But it's been bought by more people too, both on console and on PC, which is obviously gratifying - and it means Damian Martin can comfortably make games for the foreseeable future. ![]() Because of Game Pass, it's being played by many, many more people than Damian Martin's previous game, In Other Waters. They've got good reason to smile of course: Citizen Sleeper appears to have been a big success. So that's how I find Damian Martin today: refreshed, calm and smiling. That's how they made Citizen Sleeper in two years, and how they were able to plan a break before launch so they could return refreshed for it. When they ran out of time to apply to art college, they chose puppetry instead, which would eventually take them into a career in theatre design, where they learned lots of valuable lessons - one of them being dealing with un-moveable deadlines by planning only what can be done in time. We keep coming back to puppetry as a running theme, and that's because, much to my surprise, Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin is a trained puppeteer. ![]()
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