That’s the goal."

He says, “This is how development should be.”

It’s got so many ways to grow […] and so much space to pull from."

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Instead, Bit Reactor are “very focused on forward,” he says.

“We’re not really looking backwards anymore at any of the things we’ve made.

This is partly a reaction to some of the development practices Foertsch has seen elsewhere during his career.

A team photo of the developers from Bit Reactor.

“I’ve been in studios where that’s just not the case,” he says.

Here’s hoping Bit Reactor’s careful rebellion against its own genre is a successful one.

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