''Storyteller'' is an upcoming

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Daniel Benmergui Daniel Benmergui is an independent game designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina known for the creation of art games such as ''Today I Die'', ''I Wish I Were the Moon'', and the upcoming '' Storyteller''. Life and career Benmergui grew up at h ...

and to be published by

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. The game is scheduled to released on March 23, 2023 for Microsoft Windows and

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Development

''Storyteller'' has been under development by Argentinian game designer

since 2009. An early prototype of the game was awarded the

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's innovation award, the ''Nuovo'', in 2012. Benmergui spoke of the

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the game was in a Fuckup Nights presentation in 2020, detailing how he abandoned the game in 2015 after being forced to move home to his mother (and subsequently started working on it again). A limited time demo of the game was released in July 2021.

References

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