The game she wrote on a boat kept her afloat


Lente Cuenen works on the boat she lives on near Amsterdam. Cuenen creates games with a MacBook covered by Pokémon stickers and an old PlayStation 3 controller. — Jussi Puikkonen/The New York Times

GOOISE MEREN, the Netherlands: Lente Cuenen’s house sways from side to side in the slight afternoon breeze. It is a snug space. At one end are her bed, a couch and a small TV. At the other a toilet cubicle, the kitchen, her workstation and a table cluttered with curios.

There is a lime green Nintendo DS Lite with its wire-guts spilling out, a 12-volt battery abandoned after a failed attempt at charging her iPhone and a stack of video game cases, including one for Ship Simulator 2008.

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