MIGS: Day 1, 11:30am: Without electricity, Monopoly will light the way
Brenda Brathwaite ponders boats and choo-choos.
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MIGS took place Nov. 16 - 17, 2009.
Jim McGinley dabbles in scribbling.
Previous Entries - 7:40am , 8:30am , 10:15am
Day 1 - 11:30am
How I Dumped Electricity and Learned to Love Design
Brenda Brathwaite
Brenda has the attitude, style and swagger of a rock star.
She's an irreverent, funny, rapid-fire presenter.
Unleashed more ammo than Predator.
Hands Sirlin offers exhaustive detail and opinion here.
Matthew Kumar summarizes and merges here.
Making games since she was 15.
Game design's a whole world - a magic place. "Design = Play."
Game designers "have an innate desire to create things with our hands."
"Whose first game design was in lego?"
Most of the audience raised their hands.
As I raised my hand, I wondered who would do all the accounting.
Leggo her Legos. SCAD position allowed her flexibility.
"Board games, dude - think about it."
Brenda | What'd you learn in school today? |
7-Year Old Daughter: | We learned about the Middle Passage.Africans were taken to America, then Abraham Lincoln freed them all. |
Brenda's Head | WTF? |
And thus, a very serious board game was born.
Middle Passage: The Game
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