The Berlin Paradox: Chronicles of a Soviet Time Traveler

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Living in Berlin is like getting a hug from a hermit who hasn’t showered in months. It’s not very pleasant, but you know she has a good heart.

Berlin is a tough city, and it doesn’t treat its people with grace. But that’s just the way the city was raised. It had a hard life. It knows nothing else.

I’ve been no exception. Berlin hasn’t been easy on me, but I was already a lost cause. I fell madly in love with it as soon as I laid eyes on her for the first time. Like people, cities build strong personalities through suffering, and Berlin has a mesmerizing personality, if you have the stamina to discover it.

It was during my first winter in the city that I decided to create a game that would take players on a journey of the 20th century’s history through the eyes of its capital.

After many months of trial and error, I realized it didn’t make a good game after all. However, all that intense research had given birth to a story which I felt couldn’t be scrapped, and so, I decided to port it into a medium that would better suit its mood.

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