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The project combines a visual novel built with Yarn Spinner and Unity with a 300-page physical binder called The Compendium, containing documentation for seven fictional games. Developed in two months for ACMI's Game Worlds exhibition, the team conducted research with actual Sega tip line workers from 1992-1995, created elaborate fictional company lore, photographed local actors for character portraits, and hand-assembled four complete physical binders with decoder wheels, anaglyph filters, and handwritten notes. The installation functions as both playable game and historical artifact, exploring disappeared gaming infrastructure before online guides existed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - ["I Was Making Fixes Right Up Until The Deadline" - The Story Of Hudson Soft's Bizarre Super Mario Bros. 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