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David Charles Shaw

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Two years of The Long Gate

It has been two years since I released The Long Gate on PC. Since then, the game has also been released on Nintendo Switch, and now we are releasing the complete soundtrack for free everywhere.

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

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