TECH SUPPORT

After Purvis released his debut trailer, he received a handful of messages from friends before putting his phone down for an hour. When he picked it up again, the Twitter app began to lag under the weight of notifications and DMs. “That was when I realised it had got quite popular,” he says. What really surprised him was the attention it attracted from overseas. Within a couple of hours of the trailer’s launch, he’d received a message from Brazil, offering to translate the game into Portuguese for free. With hindsight, he says, he should have seen it coming: “Thatcher has quite a significant legacy in South America today because of certain things the British government did in the ’80s and ’90s, so she’s still seen as a villainous figure there.”