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More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel

Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words: "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come […] Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++ , a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N . At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words : "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come up with a game." But now here we are, more than a decade later, and N is getting another sequel. And this time the focus is on multiplayer. The new game is called, absurdly, N Plus Infinity Times Two . Whereas N++ was meant to be the ultimate single-player

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Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words: "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come […] Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++ , a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N . At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words : "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come up with a game." But now here we are, more than a decade later, and N is getting another sequel. And this time the focus is on multiplayer. The new game is called, absurdly, N Plus Infinity Times Two . Whereas N++ was meant to be the ultimate single-player

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According to The Verge’s source item, More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel, Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words: “We hope it’s not another 10 years before we come […] Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++ , a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N . At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words : “We hope it’s not another 10 years before we come up with a game.” But now here we are, more than a decade later, and N is getting another sequel. And this time the focus is on multiplayer. The new game is called, absurdly, N Plus Infinity Times Two . Whereas N++ was meant to be the ultimate single-player

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