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It began development in late March 2012, and was later released in early August of that year. Described as "a student game made over a few months meant to celebrate speed, movement, and twitter," it has the player traverse through various environments at high speeds, all the while completing missions
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takes place in a dystopian future in which the entire world has been "absorbed by a mobile game", resulting in the brainwashing of all of its inhabitants. The player controls a magazine deliverer who must deliver "'zines" to people in order to show them what real life is like.
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is consistently present on the player's screen and incorporated into the game, used to receive missions as well as play other games contained within the phone, with inspiration taken from free-to-play
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it was intended for, which is a reference to Jet Set Radio PC remaster complaints, when players attempted to use keyboard instead of usual controller and had problems with walkthrough.
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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is also prominently featured as an aspect; players can use it to take in-game pictures using the phone and tweet them.
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originally began development as a student thesis project in experimental game design at the
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The game's title is a play-on words of the terms "zine" (short for
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Developer(s)
Arcane Kids
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Unity
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Windows
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Arcane Kids
Microsoft Windows
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dreamcast
Jet Set Radio

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