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The 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco … game makers and executives make backroom deals while attendees enjoy the show. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco … game makers and executives make backroom deals while attendees enjoy the show. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
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Mon 15 Feb 2021 05.30 EST
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Brenda Romero, the designer behind Prohibition-era strategy game Empire of Sin, remembers the meeting as if it were yesterday. Facing publisher bigwigs in a Cologne conference room, the veteran game maker presented what she had been writing for the past five years, and dreaming of for 20. “It was the most nerve-racking pitch of my life,” she says. “I�