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Mark Darrah, co-director of Dragon Age: Origins, has played Riven for 3 minutes and Factorio for 832 hours: 'If you want to know what kind of programmer someone would be, have them play Factorio'

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Dragon Age: Origins
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Release · Nov 3, 2009
Developer · BioWare
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