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SKATE STORY

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Developer Sam Eng

Developer By Sam Eng

Publisher Devolver Digital

 Format PC

 Origin US

 Release TBA

The first time we met Sam Eng, at June’s Summer Game Fest, he arrived clutching the skateboard he rode across LA to get there. There’s no question, then, that the Skate Story developer is the real deal. He enountered the hobby in his youth via Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, then gave up after realising “I wasn’t going to be jumping over taxis”. He picked it back up around the time he turned 20, however: “I still skate around every day. I use it as my main mode of transportation. Now it’s become a lifelong pursuit.”

Note the way he talks about the skateboard: not so much as a vehicle for tricks as simply a . “I have so much fun just running my daily errands,” he says. Even a grocery-store run involves “micro-decisions” about how best to navigate the is more in line with Roll7’s games, where you’re pulling tricks en route to a destination. What Eng is really interested in, he says, is “the feeling of travel”.

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