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But both Brier and Dawson think there is something inherently valuable in physically sitting down at a PC to play a game like Unpacking. Relaxing games about everyday activities certainly aren't unheard of, but outside a few sim genres, they're often relegated to mobile. 'In Unpacking, you can unpack an entire kitchen in ten minutes and get to do all the fun things of organizing a kitchen, deciding where things go and being surprised by the items that come out of the box, and exploring the new kitchen you've arrived in, as opposed to doing heavy lifting and taking the boxes down to rubbish bins and that sort of thing.'

In a game, it's a lot easier and requires a lot less effort to achieve much greater things. 'Anything that's simplified and distilled is generally more fun than the real thing'Д«rier adds: 'It's like how I could be, in the past, unemployed, but playing The Sims and my sim is the president and their house is super organized and their life is so good, while my life is not that great. Objects can be moved around freely and it doesn't hurt to rearrange the microwave 15 times. When you empty a box, it folds up and disappears into a little puff of particles. 'But the main thing is that anything that's simplified and distilled is generally more fun than the real thing. I've moved like five times recently, that doesn't sound like my idea of a good time',' Dawson says. 'We have a lot of people that look at and go, 'Oh, I don't want to do that. Written out, it seems fairly mundane, but looking at the gifs of the game that Witch Beam has used for marketing, it's easier to see the appeal. It's a game where you unpack boxes of things and organize them in various household environments. There's a sense of accomplishment in it.'

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So you're getting things from different boxes, and suddenly you have a full set of figurines, or plates, or bowls. 'You unpack an entire box, and that feels like an achievement, and when you finish unpacking a box and put it away, you unlock the next box under it, and you're collecting sets. 'When Tim moved in with me and we were unpacking his things, we saw that this was actually kind of gamey,' she says. These combined skill sets, along with a few others at independent studio Witch Beam, have resulted in Unpacking, a casual PC game that doesn't quite fit in either of those two worlds.Д«rier said the idea for the game's primary conceit came from their combined experience, too. Brier, meanwhile, comes from the world of mobile free-to-play games. Tim Dawson and Wren Brier are partners, both in game development and in life, and their game Unpacking is very much the natural result of their combined worlds.Дawson began working in the Australian gaming industry in 2004 on console games before going independent in 2013.