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+The following template will be deprecated soon. Please refer to the new games repo for more genre-specific templates: https://github.com/flutter/games
+For more information, please refer to flutter.dev/games to see all resources available for flutter game developers. 
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+Old template readme: 
 A starter game in Flutter with all the bells and whistles
 of a mobile (iOS & Android) game including the following features: