Filipino gamemaker’s ‘Pretentious Game’ finds steady audience

It’s a story of love, loss, and heartache. It’s also a platformer, a puzzle game and a continuing tale stretching across multiple chapters. Pretentious Game explains nothing to players about the control scheme or how to progress. Players eventually realize that the story itself is the clue to moving forward. Pretentious Game, built by gamemaker Bari Silvestre took home the Director’s Choice Award from Casual Connect San Francisco 2013. Silvestre says the game has a steady audience, remaining in the top 50 of the Family and Puzzle genres of the game apps with over 250,000 downloads.

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