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team ultimately presented a beta version to children at an
Amsterdam primary school, after suffering through a panic-stricken September. The game was playtested by children from the top three groups of primary school; the developers noted the potential for the game to be popular with girls due to them finding solutions in a process-wise way, as opposed to boys who will click the screen 10,000 times until something happens. By 2016, 40 people would work at IJsfontein.
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Japanese publisher put them in a strong negotiating position with VNU Interactive; while it was standard for the publisher to get rights to the
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Interactive Media, and published by Bombilla (Dutch), Van In (Belgium), VNU Interactive, Tivola (English & German), and Gallimard (French). The game was originally released in November, 1997 and ended up on Macintosh and Windows.
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