The latest in our series of pre-game interviews features Jason Rohrer, creator of art games Passage, Gravitation, Sleep Is Death, and Inside a Star-Filled Sky, among many others. He talks about playing with knives, lying to the NSA, and wanting to be a mailman on Mars.

I had a lot of nightmares as a child. I had night terrors where you sit up in bed and scream. I would be talking as if seeing the dream characters. My mother has these stories about the time I thought she was Jabba the Hutt. I was born in 1977, and my mom loved sci-fi, but she regretted showing me Star Wars. I was only four or five.

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