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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.71,0:00:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think of games,\Nthere's all kinds of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.18,0:00:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you're ticked off, or maybe,\Nyou're looking forward to a new game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.59,0:00:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been up too late playing a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.47,0:00:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these things happen to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.96,0:00:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we think about games,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.42,0:00:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of times we think\Nabout stuff like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.61,0:00:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first-person shooters, or the big,\Nwhat we would call AAA games,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.67,0:00:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe you're a Facebook game player.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.57,0:00:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one my partner and I worked on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.47,0:00:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you play Facebook games,\Nand that's what we're making right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.79,0:00:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a lighter form of game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.32,0:00:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you think about\Nthe tragically boring board games
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.95,0:00:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hold us hostage\Nin Thanksgiving situations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.21,0:00:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This would be one of the tragically boring\Nboard games that you can figure out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.98,0:00:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe you're in your living room,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.76,0:00:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing with the Wii with the kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.64,0:00:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's this whole range of games,\Nand that's very much what I think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.40,0:00:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I make my living from games,\NI've been lucky enough to do this
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.37,0:00:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since I was 15, which also qualifies\Nas I've never really had a real job.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.83,0:00:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we think about games as fun,\Nand that's completely reasonable,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.73,0:00:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's just think about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.37,0:00:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this one here,\Nthis is the 1980 Olympics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.10,0:00:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I don't know where you guys were,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.95,0:00:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was in my living room.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.35,0:01:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was practically a religious event.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.17,0:01:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is when the Americans\Nbeat the Russians,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.78,0:01:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this was --\Nyes, it was technically a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.05,0:01:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hockey is a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.40,0:01:09.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really, was this a game?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.17,0:01:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, people cried.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.93,0:01:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never seen my mother cry\Nlike that at the end of Monopoly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.30,0:01:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.46,0:01:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this was an amazing experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.84,0:01:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, if anybody here is from Boston --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.37,0:01:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the Boston Red Sox\Nwon the World Series
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.45,0:01:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I believe, 351 years --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.38,0:01:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.68,0:01:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they won the World Series,\Nit was amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.96,0:01:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I happened to be living\Nin Springfield at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.39,0:01:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the best part of it was,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.40,0:01:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would close the women's door\Nin the bathroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.04,0:01:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember seeing "Go Sox,"\Nand I thought, really?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.96,0:01:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the houses, you'd come out,\Nbecause every game,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.03,0:01:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I think almost every game,\Nwent into overtime, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.84,0:01:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we'd be outside, and all the other\Nlights are on in the whole block.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.21,0:01:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And kids -- the attendance\Nwas down in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.30,0:01:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids weren't going to school,\Nbut it's OK, it's the Red Sox, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.47,0:01:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, there's education,\Nand then there's the Red Sox,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.14,0:01:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we know where they're stacked.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.93,0:02:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this was an amazing experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.77,0:02:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again, yes, it was a game,\Nbut they didn't write newspaper articles,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.28,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people didn't say, "You know, really,\NI can die now, because the Red Sox won."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.63,0:02:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many people did.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.10,0:02:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So games, it means something more to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.07,0:02:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It absolutely means something more.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.96,0:02:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, this is an abrupt transition here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.24,0:02:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was three years where\NI actually did have a real job, sort of.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.56,0:02:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the head of a college\Ndepartment teaching games,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.14,0:02:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, again, it was sort of a real job,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.94,0:02:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now I got to talk about making them\Nas opposed to making them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.60,0:02:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the job of it,\Nwhen you're a chair of a department,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.90,0:02:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to eat, and I did that very well --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.73,0:02:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I'm out at a dinner\Nwith this guy called Zig Jackson.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.60,0:02:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is Zig in this photograph,\Nthis is also one of Zig's photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.18,0:02:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's a photographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.36,0:02:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes all around the country\Ntaking pictures of himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.43,0:02:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can see here he's got\NZig's Indian Reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.13,0:02:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this particular shot --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.67,0:02:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is one of the more traditional shots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a rain dancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.51,0:02:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of my favorite shots here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.63,0:03:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can look at this, and maybe\Nyou've even seen things like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.91,0:03:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an expression of culture, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.86,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is actually\Nfrom his Degradation series.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.42,0:03:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what was most fascinating\Nto me about this series
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.93,0:03:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just, look at that little boy there,\Ncan you imagine?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.58,0:03:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can see that's\Na traditional Native American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.86,0:03:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I just want to change that guy's race.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.92,0:03:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just imagine if that's a black guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.84,0:03:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, "Honey, come here, let's get you\Na picture with the black guy." Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.34,0:03:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, seriously, nobody would do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.18,0:03:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It baffles the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.59,0:03:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so Zig, being Indian,\Nlikewise it baffles his mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.49,0:03:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His favorite photograph --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.76,0:03:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my favorite photograph of his,\Nwhich I don't have in here --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.66,0:03:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Indian taking picture of white people\Ntaking pictures of Indians.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.93,0:03:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.46,0:03:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I happen to be at dinner\Nwith this photographer,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.88,0:03:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was talking\Nwith another photographer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.96,0:03:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a shooting that had occurred,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.67,0:03:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was on an Indian Reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.41,0:03:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd taken his camera up there\Nto photograph it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.69,0:03:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when he got there,\Nhe discovered he couldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.30,0:03:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just couldn't capture the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.10,0:03:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they were talking back and forth\Nabout this question.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.02,0:03:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you take the picture or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.96,0:03:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was fascinating\Nto me as a game designer,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.37,0:04:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it never occurs to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.82,0:04:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should I make the game\Nabout this difficult topic or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.100,0:04:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we just make things that are fun
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.93,0:04:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or will make you feel fear,\Nthat visceral excitement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.44,0:04:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every other medium does it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.42,0:04:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is my kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.61,0:04:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Maezza, and when she was\Nseven years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.31,0:04:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she came home from school one day,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.97,0:04:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like I do every single day,\NI asked her, "What did you do today?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.25,0:04:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she said, "We talked\Nabout the Middle Passage."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.62,0:04:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this was a big moment.\NMaezza's dad is black,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I knew this day was coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.62,0:04:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't expecting it at seven,\NI don't know why, but I wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.76,0:04:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyways, so I asked her,\N"How do you feel about that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.14,0:04:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she proceeded to tell me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.72,0:04:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so any of you who are parents\Nwill recognize the bingo buzzwords here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.25,0:04:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The ships start in England,\Nthey come down from England,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.95,0:04:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they go to Africa,\Nthey go across the ocean --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.16,0:04:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the Middle Passage part --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.83,0:04:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come to America, where\Nthe slaves are sold," she's telling me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.06,0:04:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Abraham Lincoln was elected president,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.09,0:04:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he passed\Nthe Emancipation Proclamation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.40,0:04:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now they're free.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.60,0:04:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause for about 10 seconds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.92,0:04:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can I play a game, Mommy?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.26,0:04:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, that's it?\NAnd so, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.37,0:05:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the Middle Passage,\Nthis is an incredibly significant event,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.18,0:05:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's treating it like, basically\Nsome black people went on a cruise,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.12,0:05:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is more or less how it sounds to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.16,0:05:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.34,0:05:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, to me,\NI wanted more value in this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.23,0:05:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when she asked\Nif she could play a game, I said, "Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.43,0:05:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.64,0:05:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I happened to have\Nall of these little pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.14,0:05:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a game designer, so I have\Nthis stuff sitting around my house.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.27,0:05:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Yeah, you can play a game,"\Nand I give her a bunch of these,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.54,0:05:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I tell her to paint them\Nin different families.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.98,0:05:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are pictures of Maezza\Nwhen she was --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.09,0:05:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, it still chokes me up seeing these.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.06,0:05:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she's painting her little families.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.90,0:05:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then I grab a bunch of them\Nand I put them on a boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.56,0:05:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the boat,\Nit was made quickly, obviously.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.48,0:05:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the basic gist of it is,\NI grabbed a bunch of families,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.44,0:05:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's like, "Mommy,\Nbut you forgot the pink baby
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.90,0:05:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you forgot the blue daddy
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.34,0:05:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you forgot all these other things."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.24,0:05:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she says, "They want to go."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.80,0:05:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Honey,\Nno, they don't want to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.04,0:05:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Middle Passage, Nobody wants\Nto go on the Middle Passage."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.37,0:06:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she gave me a look that only a daughter\Nof a game designer would give a mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.28,0:06:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we're going across the ocean,\Nfollowing these rules,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.07,0:06:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she realizes that she's rolling\Npretty high,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.16,0:06:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she says to me,\N"We're not going to make it."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.47,0:06:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she realizes,\Nwe don't have enough food,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.61,0:06:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so she asks what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.95,0:06:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say -- remember, she's seven --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.70,0:06:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We can either put\Nsome people in the water
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.76,0:06:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we can hope that they don't get sick
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.66,0:06:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we make it to the other side."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.30,0:06:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the look on her face came over --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.90,0:06:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now mind you this is after a month of --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.55,0:06:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is Black History Month, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.25,0:06:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a month, she says to me,\N"Did this really happen?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.20,0:06:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Yes." And so she said --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.01,0:06:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is her brother and sister --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.68,0:06:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I came out of the woods,\NAvalon and Donovan might be gone."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.68,0:06:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.87,0:06:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But I'd get to see them in America."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.71,0:06:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.88,0:06:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But what if I saw them?\NCouldn't we stay together?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.43,0:06:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So Daddy could be gone."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.71,0:06:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.89,0:06:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was fascinated by this,\Nand she started to cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.35,0:06:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to cry, her father started\Nto cry, and now we're all crying.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.78,0:06:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't expect to come home from work\Nto the Middle Passage, but there it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.67,0:07:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we made this game, and she got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.79,0:07:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She got it because she spent time\Nwith these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.37,0:07:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't abstract stuff\Nin a brochure or in a movie.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.64,0:07:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it was just an incredibly\Npowerful experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.73,0:07:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the game, which I've ended up\Ncalling "The New World,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.73,0:07:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I like the phrase.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.04,0:07:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think the New World\Nfelt too new worldly exciting
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.85,0:07:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the people who were\Nbrought over on slave ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.30,0:07:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when this happened,\NI saw the whole planet; I was so excited.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.41,0:07:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been making games for 20-some years,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.82,0:07:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I decided to do it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.85,0:07:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My history is Irish.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.29,0:07:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a game called "Síochán Leat."\NIt's "peace be with you."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.44,0:07:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the entire history\Nof my family in a single game.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.100,0:07:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made another game called "Train."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.52,0:07:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was making a series of six games\Nthat covered difficult topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.60,0:07:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you're going to cover a difficult\Ntopic, this is one you need to cover,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.33,0:07:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll let you figure out\Nwhat that's about on your own.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.08,0:07:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also made a game\Nabout the Trail of Tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.96,0:07:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a game\Nwith 50,000 individual pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.44,0:07:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was crazy when I decided to start it,\Nbut I'm in the middle of it now.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.85,0:07:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.10,0:07:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm hoping that I'll teach\Nculture through these games.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.05,0:08:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the one I'm working\Non right now, which is --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.38,0:08:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm right in the middle of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.23,0:08:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these for some reason\Nchoke me up like crazy --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.72,0:08:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a game called\N"Mexican Kitchen Workers."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.80,0:08:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And originally, it was\Na math problem, more or less.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.26,0:08:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the economics\Nof illegal immigration.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.36,0:08:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more I learned\Nabout Mexican culture --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.58,0:08:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my partner is Mexican —\Nthe more I learned that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.87,0:08:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, for all of us,\Nfood is a basic need,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.23,0:08:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is obviously with Mexicans, too,\Nbut it's much more than that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.56,0:08:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an expression of love.\NIt's an expression of --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.01,0:08:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, I'm totally choking up\Nway more than I thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.49,0:08:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll look away from the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.38,0:08:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an expression of beauty,\Nit's how they say they love you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.70,0:08:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's how they say they care,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.08,0:08:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can't hear somebody\Ntalk about their Mexican grandmother
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.13,0:08:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without saying "food"\Nin the first sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.99,0:08:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so to me, this beautiful culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.17,0:08:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this beautiful expression is something\Nthat I want to capture through games.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.51,0:08:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so games, for a change,\Nit changes how we see topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.04,0:08:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it changes our perceptions\Nabout those people in topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.57,0:08:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it changes ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.32,0:08:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We change as people through games,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.53,0:08:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're involved, and we're playing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.59,0:09:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're learning as we do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.10,0:09:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.