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Rick Lane

CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'

Short in front of a Civ backdrop.
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Tanya X. Short, CEO of Kitfox games, cannot recall the name of the first PC game she ever played. But she certainly remembers the experience of playing it. "It was a step crawler where I'd sit on my dad's lap. I must have been five or six," she says. "The thing I remember most is the sounds of the skeletons were so terrifying that I had to run and hide behind the couch."

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