Sam would later tell people that these mazes were his first attempts at writing games. "A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its pure… - Gabrielle Zevin

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Sam would later tell people that these mazes were his first attempts at writing games. "A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form." Maybe so, but this was revisionist and self-aggrandizing. The mazes were for Sadie. To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it.