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While The Player Sleeps

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While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master:

THE PLAYER

For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game - the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.

Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM…

© 2019 Andrews UK (Ebook): 9781789821864

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Ebook: 30 October 2019

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