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Richard Cobbett

Before Unreal or Gears of War, a young Cliff Bleszinski made a shareware game called The Palace of Deceit

From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, it's time for a quick round of Before They Were Famous. What happened before Cliff Bleszinski's the "overnight" success?

There's almost never such thing as overnight success. Almost all success comes from much hard work, effort, a little bit of luck, and often previous, less-celebrated success. I've been working on death rays for years, yet still write a weekly column on obscure games rather than composing lists of demands to world leaders. 

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