What the original Deus Ex engine looks like, what happened to Angry Birds 2 in the year since its release, why traditional interactive stories should become a thing of the past – all this is in our selection of the most interesting materials of the week.

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The original Deus Ex disdok appeared on the network
A user of the Reddit resource published a disdok of Deus Ex and other Ion Storm games with comments from the game director of the studio.

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Developer Library: Why It’s Important to let the Player get Lost
Mark Brown, indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told why it is not necessary to stuff the player with detailed maps in metroidvaniya, as part of the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle.

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Developer’s Library: the future of interactive stories is behind the generated plot
Why traditional interactive stories should become a thing of the past and what will appear in return — Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told the video cycle Game Maker’s Toolkit.

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With the author’s permission, we have prepared a printed version of the material. We share.

101XP: “The average team in Asia is 300-400 people in the studio”
Mobio Talks within the framework of White Nights Moscow 2016, which took place on October 11-12, took several interviews with the speakers of the conference.

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Today we are publishing a conversation between Maxim Anisimov, Business Development Manager at Mobio, and Ilya Salamatov, Business Development Director at 101XP.

A year later: Rovio talked about the evolution of Angry Birds 2
In the world of free-play games, it is often said that nothing ends with the launch of the project, but on the contrary, it begins.

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What happened to Angry Birds 2 in the year since its release, – said Mans Wide, a leading game designer and product manager at the Stockholm branch of Rovio.

Casual Connect Tel Aviv 2016: details, performances, results
The Casual Connect Tel Aviv 2016 conference was held in early November.

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They told us how it was, and summed up the results.