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Turkish couple pursues the indie mobile game dream with Escher-like Hocus

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I always like the fairy tale that tells me that games can be made anywhere by anybody. While walking the streets of Berlin after Casual Connect Europe, I found a couple that reinforced this idea for me again.

It was pure serendipity. I was trying to get on a tour of the city and bought a ticket for a double-decker bus. Just ahead of me was a couple that was trying to do the same. But as we stepped onto the tour bus, the driver told us we were too late and that they were shutting down for the day.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.