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When Mike Bithell was a kid, sitting in the backseat of his parents' car as the cloudy English sky soaked the roads, he would draw lines in the window's condensation, attempting to "catch" raindrops as they slid down the pane outside.
"I honestly don't know what the point was, but that little activity would keep kid-Mike occupied for hours," Bithell remembers. "When I was trying to think of accessible family game mechanics, I remembered that and imagined how much more fun my little game would be if the raindrops reacted to the lines."
Fast-forward a few decades and Bithell is a successful independent developer building a launch game for Google's new mobile VR headset, . His past games include the award-winning platformer and , a futuristic Robin Hood-inspired stealth title starring , the actor who brought Smeagol to life in the Lord of the Rings movies. just debuted on PlayStation VR -- stealth, Serkis and all.
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