Tholen was inspired to make the game after working as a telemarketer at a Squarespace-style website-building company. "It was very, very Geocities," he explained. The service was marketed to older people who wanted a website for their small business. "Or for their dogs," Tholen added. "There were lots of dog and cat websites." At the company, he also took on paid work that involved building a website to a customer's exact specification. Game Design Elements My time with the game was divided into two parts: a few hours in a fairly linear intro section and one hour to muck about in the open world. The intro section is pure BioShock: a little room for exploration, with material and story rewards (emails and audio logs of the 'something's up with the robots' and 'argh the robots are killing me' variety) for players diligent enough to poke their noses into every nook and cranny, but mostly a series of corridors that funnel you inexorably through the plot.

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