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Ten years in the mill

We moved into a flooded Victorian mill with nine people and no heating. A decade later there are forty-one of us and the heating mostly works.

Aldous Crane, studio head

From the game

Mossvigil

Out now · 2016

We signed the lease on the Weir Mill in the winter of 2016 because it was cheap and nobody else wanted it. The ground floor flooded twice in the first year.

What the building taught us

You can’t hire fast in a building like this, so we didn’t. We grew by about three people a year, and most of the people who joined are still here.

New entries go out with the monthly letter. Leave your name at the lantern.

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