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Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint

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Magnetic Billiards is a game idea that came from an old blueprint we found in a bundle of papers hidden in the family attic, belonging to our great-great-grandfather.

Along with the blueprint we found some notes, a couple of old photographs, and newspaper cuttings dated 1888. From this we pieced together the rules and mechanics of this long lost game, designed by our ancestor a hundred and twenty three years ago!

Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint is the first video game of this ancient sport that we've developed, and has has involved a lot of experimentation with rule balancing and feature implementation. Further work will be required to really fully explore the potential of the game.

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We are The Pickford Bros, veteran independent video game designers based in the UK.