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Swedish Video Game Maker Wants Industry To Stop Chasing Money

For Fares, money gets in the way of the creative process (Credit: AFP)

Swedish-Lebanese filmmaker-turned-game-developer Josef Fares is on a mission to put storytelling first in video games, slamming money-driven designs for stifling creativity.

"From a creative perspective, if you involve money too much, then it will affect it," Fares, whose 2021 game "It Takes Two" was a critical and commercial success, told AFP in Stockholm.

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