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Five Years, 20 Lessons, 20 DS GamesFive Years, 20 Lessons, 20 DS Games

The DS has been around for five years, making right now an opportune time to review some of the platform-specific development lessons Griptonite Games has learned during that time. So here we go: five years, twenty lessons, twenty games.

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