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In a YouTube interview, Rein-Hagen spoke fondly of his former work on role-playing games and how he is working on a new role-playing game. Rein-Hagen elaborated on this role-playing game in March 2013, in another YouTube interview, describing some of the mechanics and speculating on a release date
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in conjunction with White Wolf, but the game was never published. It was based on a concept called "Inferno" that Rein-Hagen had previously spent years working on at Lion
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