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The game's alien races were written to vary in speech and personality, and to act in ways foreign to human customs. A playtester on the game, Steve Okada, gave the example that the
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and writing which are nothing more than an embarrassment, leaving the player only going through the 'point and click' motions rather than becoming absorbed in an alien world and culture so painstakingly thought out."
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called it "an unusually clever, finely textured game", whose only drawback was its lack of 3D graphics. He ended, "Buy a one-way ticket to Jorune: you'll never want to leave." The magazine later named
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in the 1980s, and long considered using it as the basis for a video game. He pitched this idea to SSI in the early 1990s, and he led the team on the resultant game
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