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'When Grace Bruxner was growing up in Darwin, she wouldn't play video games,
she would just watch others play.
"Or I would play games in this very passive way where I wasn't engaging with
the game itself," she tells ABC Arts.
"I'm not a gamer, I don't play many games at all. I've never really identified
with that subculture."
But she was always illustrating her own little worlds.
"No one was really paying attention to anything that I would create, because
it's just a drawing and they look at it for five seconds and they're like,
'Great, nice drawing,'" she says.
"And then I thought about how when you play a game, you have to sit down and
really concentrate on it … It is the perfect medium for people to pay attention
to me — people will just have to live in my world for a little bit."
So she decided to make her own games.
Fast forward to 2022: At just 25 years old, Bruxner has completed her magnum
opus — a trilogy of comedy adventure video games about the second-best
detective around.
Frog Detective and its three instalments —
The Haunted Island,
The Case of
the Invisible Wizard and
Corruption at Cowboy County — have found an
impressively large audience for a game made almost entirely by Bruxner and
programmer Thomas Bowker (under the moniker Worm Club) in Melbourne.'
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
