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Daniel Benmergui’s long-awaited Storyteller is now longer-awaited

Daniel Benmergui has been working on Storyteller—his critically acclaimed, experimental, narrative-generating puzzle game (phew!)—for a long time. As we detailed in an in-depth feature on him at the end of last year, it’s his passion project, and a rallying cry for videogame developers in Latin America. But now he’s taking a break. On his blog, he posted that the project was temporarily suspended while he pursues a commercial version of Ernesto RPG, the charming little free roguelike he put out a month ago. “I’ve been working on it for three years now and I am starting to feel creatively numb…

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La-Mulana 2 promises agony, confusion, and whip-cracking fun

The original La-Mulana was super-difficult doujin-ware made by a group of hobbyists from Osaka in 2006. It was never intended for mass consumption, a lovingly made yet punishingly hard throwback to the days of retro gaming, when games were abstruse, and tip-lines and the playground were a poor-man’s substitute for Let’s Plays.  Well, now those hobbyists are going by NIGORO and are doing a sequel, La-Mulana 2: The 0th Body, The 9th Spirit, after the original found moderate success being remade on the PC and WiiWare last year. There’s also a Vita port in the works. We don’t know much…