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Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.77,0:00:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk about games for a change.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.71,0:00:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think of games,\Nthere's all kinds of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.18,0:00:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you're ticked off, or maybe,\Nyou're looking forward to a new game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.59,0:00:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been up too late playing a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.47,0:00:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these things happen to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.96,0:00:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we think about games,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.42,0:00:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of times we think\Nabout stuff like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.61,0:00:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first-person shooters, or the big,\Nwhat we would call AAA games,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.67,0:00:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe you're a Facebook game player.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.57,0:00:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one my partner and I worked on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.47,0:00:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you play Facebook games,\Nand that's what we're making right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.79,0:00:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a lighter form of game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.32,0:00:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you think about\Nthe tragically boring board games
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.95,0:00:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hold us hostage\Nin Thanksgiving situations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.21,0:00:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This would be one of the tragically boring\Nboard games that you can figure out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.98,0:00:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe you're in your living room,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.76,0:00:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing with the Wii with the kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.64,0:00:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's this whole range of games,\Nand that's very much what I think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.40,0:01:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I make my living from games,\NI've been lucky enough to do this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.37,0:01:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since I was 15, which also qualifies\Nas I've never really had a real job.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.33,0:01:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we think about games as fun,\Nand that's completely reasonable,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.23,0:01:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's just think about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.87,0:01:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this one here,\Nthis is the 1980 Olympics.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.20,0:01:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I don't know where you guys were,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.05,0:01:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was in my living room.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.45,0:01:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was practically a religious event.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.27,0:01:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is when the Americans\Nbeat the Russians,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.88,0:01:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this was...\NYes, it was technically a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.15,0:01:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hockey is a game.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.50,0:01:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really, was this a game?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.27,0:01:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, people cried.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.03,0:01:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never seen my mother cry\Nlike that at the end of Monopoly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.40,0:01:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.56,0:01:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this was an amazing experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.94,0:01:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, if anybody here is from Boston...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.47,0:01:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the Boston Red Sox\Nwon the World Series
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.55,0:01:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I believe, 351 years...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.48,0:01:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.78,0:01:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they won the World Series,\Nit was amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.06,0:01:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I happened to be living\Nin Springfield at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.49,0:01:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the best part of it was,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.50,0:01:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would close the women's door\Nin the bathroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.14,0:01:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember seeing "Go Sox,"\Nand I thought, really?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.56,0:02:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the houses, you'd come out,\Nbecause every game,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.63,0:02:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I think almost every game,\Nwent into overtime, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.44,0:02:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we'd be outside, and all the other\Nlights are on in the whole block.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.81,0:02:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And kids... the attendance\Nwas down in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.90,0:02:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids weren't going to school,\Nbut it's OK, it's the Red Sox, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.07,0:02:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, there's education,\Nand then there's the Red Sox,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.74,0:02:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we know where they're stacked.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.53,0:02:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this was an amazing experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.37,0:02:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again, yes, it was a game,\Nbut they didn't write newspaper articles,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.88,0:02:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people didn't say, "You know, really,\NI can die now, because the Red Sox won."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.23,0:02:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many people did.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.70,0:02:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So games, it means something more to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.67,0:02:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It absolutely means something more.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.56,0:02:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, this is an abrupt transition here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.84,0:02:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was three years where\NI actually did have a real job, sort of.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.16,0:02:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the head of a college\Ndepartment teaching games,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.74,0:02:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, again, it was sort of a real job,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.54,0:02:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now I got to talk about making them\Nas opposed to making them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.20,0:02:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the job of it,\Nwhen you're a chair of a department,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.50,0:02:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to eat, and I did that very well...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.33,0:02:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'm out at a dinner\Nwith this guy called Zig Jackson.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.20,0:02:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is Zig in this photograph,\Nthis is also one of Zig's photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.78,0:02:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's a photographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.96,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes all around the country\Ntaking pictures of himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.03,0:03:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can see here he's got\NZig's Indian Reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.23,0:03:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this particular shot...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.77,0:03:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one of the more traditional shots.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.92,0:03:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a rain dancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.61,0:03:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of my favorite shots here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.73,0:03:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can look at this, and maybe\Nyou've even seen things like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.01,0:03:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an expression of culture, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.96,0:03:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is actually\Nfrom his Degradation series.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.52,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what was most fascinating\Nto me about this series
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.03,0:03:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just, look at that little boy there,\Ncan you imagine?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.68,0:03:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can see that's\Na traditional Native American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.96,0:03:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I just want to change that guy's race.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.02,0:03:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just imagine if that's a black guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.94,0:03:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, "Honey, come here, let's get you\Na picture with the black guy." Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.44,0:03:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, seriously, nobody would do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.28,0:03:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It baffles the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.69,0:03:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so Zig, being Indian,\Nlikewise it baffles his mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.59,0:03:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His favorite photograph...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.86,0:03:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite photograph of his,\Nwhich I don't have in here...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.76,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is Indian taking picture of white people\Ntaking pictures of Indians.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.03,0:03:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.56,0:03:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I happen to be at dinner\Nwith this photographer,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.98,0:03:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was talking\Nwith another photographer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.06,0:04:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a shooting that had occurred,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.77,0:04:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was on an Indian Reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.51,0:04:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd taken his camera up there\Nto photograph it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.79,0:04:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when he got there,\Nhe discovered he couldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.40,0:04:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just couldn't capture the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.20,0:04:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they were talking back and forth\Nabout this question.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.12,0:04:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you take the picture or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.06,0:04:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was fascinating\Nto me as a game designer,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.47,0:04:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it never occurs to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.92,0:04:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should I make the game\Nabout this difficult topic or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.10,0:04:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we just make things that are fun
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.03,0:04:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or will make you feel fear,\Nthat visceral excitement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.54,0:04:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every other medium does it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.52,0:04:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is my kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.71,0:04:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Maezza, and when she was\Nseven years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.41,0:04:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she came home from school one day,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.07,0:04:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like I do every single day,\NI asked her, "What did you do today?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.35,0:04:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she said, "We talked\Nabout the Middle Passage."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.72,0:04:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this was a big moment.\NMaezza's dad is black,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.10,0:04:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I knew this day was coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.72,0:04:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't expecting it at seven,\NI don't know why, but I wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.86,0:04:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyways, so I asked her,\N"How do you feel about that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.24,0:04:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she proceeded to tell me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.82,0:04:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so any of you who are parents\Nwill recognize the bingo buzzwords here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.35,0:04:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The ships start in England,\Nthey come down from England,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.05,0:05:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they go to Africa,\Nthey go across the ocean...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.26,0:05:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the Middle Passage part...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.93,0:05:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come to America, where\Nthe slaves are sold," she's telling me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.16,0:05:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Abraham Lincoln was elected president,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.19,0:05:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he passed\Nthe Emancipation Proclamation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.50,0:05:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now they're free.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.70,0:05:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause for about 10 seconds.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.02,0:05:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can I play a game, Mommy?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.36,0:05:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, that's it?\NAnd so, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.77,0:05:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the Middle Passage,\Nthis is an incredibly significant event,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.88,0:05:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's treating it like, basically\Nsome black people went on a cruise,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.82,0:05:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is more or less how it sounds to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.86,0:05:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.04,0:05:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, to me,\NI wanted more value in this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.93,0:05:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when she asked\Nif she could play a game, I said, "Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.13,0:05:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.34,0:05:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I happened to have\Nall of these little pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.84,0:05:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a game designer, so I have\Nthis stuff sitting around my house.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.97,0:05:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Yeah, you can play a game,"\Nand I give her a bunch of these,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.24,0:05:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I tell her to paint them\Nin different families.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.68,0:05:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are pictures of Maezza\Nwhen she was...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.79,0:05:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, it still chokes me up seeing these.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.76,0:05:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she's painting her little families.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.60,0:05:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then I grab a bunch of them\Nand I put them on a boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.27,0:05:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the boat,\Nit was made quickly, obviously.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.68,0:06:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the basic gist of it is,\NI grabbed a bunch of families,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.64,0:06:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's like, "Mommy,\Nbut you forgot the pink baby
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.10,0:06:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you forgot the blue daddy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.54,0:06:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you forgot all these other things."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.44,0:06:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she says, "They want to go."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Honey,\Nno, they don't want to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.24,0:06:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Middle Passage, Nobody wants\Nto go on the Middle Passage."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.57,0:06:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she gave me a look that only a daughter\Nof a game designer would give a mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.48,0:06:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we're going across the ocean,\Nfollowing these rules,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.27,0:06:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she realizes that she's rolling\Npretty high,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.36,0:06:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she says to me,\N"We're not going to make it."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.67,0:06:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she realizes,\Nwe don't have enough food,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.81,0:06:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so she asks what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.15,0:06:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say... remember, she's seven...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.90,0:06:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We can either put\Nsome people in the water
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.96,0:06:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we can hope that they don't get sick
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.86,0:06:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we make it to the other side."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.50,0:06:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the look on her face came over...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.10,0:06:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now mind you this is after a month of...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.05,0:06:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Black History Month, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.75,0:06:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a month, she says to me,\N"Did this really happen?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.20,0:06:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Yes." And so she said...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.51,0:06:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is her brother and sister...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.18,0:06:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I came out of the woods,\NAvalon and Donovan might be gone."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.18,0:06:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.37,0:07:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But I'd get to see them in America."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.21,0:07:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.38,0:07:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But what if I saw them?\NCouldn't we stay together?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.93,0:07:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So Daddy could be gone."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.21,0:07:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.39,0:07:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was fascinated by this,\Nand she started to cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.85,0:07:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to cry, her father started\Nto cry, and now we're all crying.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.28,0:07:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't expect to come home from work\Nto the Middle Passage, but there it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.17,0:07:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we made this game, and she got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.29,0:07:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She got it because she spent time\Nwith these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.87,0:07:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't abstract stuff\Nin a brochure or in a movie.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.64,0:07:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it was just an incredibly\Npowerful experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.73,0:07:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the game, which I've ended up\Ncalling "The New World,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.73,0:07:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I like the phrase.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.04,0:07:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think the New World\Nfelt too new worldly exciting
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.85,0:07:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the people who were\Nbrought over on slave ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.30,0:07:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when this happened,\NI saw the whole planet; I was so excited.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.41,0:07:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been making games for 20-some years,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.82,0:07:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I decided to do it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.85,0:07:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My history is Irish.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.29,0:07:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a game called "Síochán Leat."\NIt's "peace be with you."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.44,0:07:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the entire history\Nof my family in a single game.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.100,0:07:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made another game called "Train."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.52,0:07:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was making a series of six games\Nthat covered difficult topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.60,0:08:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you're going to cover a difficult\Ntopic, this is one you need to cover,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.33,0:08:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll let you figure out\Nwhat that's about on your own.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.08,0:08:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also made a game\Nabout the Trail of Tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.96,0:08:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a game\Nwith 50,000 individual pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.44,0:08:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was crazy when I decided to start it,\Nbut I'm in the middle of it now.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.85,0:08:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.10,0:08:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm hoping that I'll teach\Nculture through these games.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.05,0:08:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the one I'm working\Non right now, which is...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.38,0:08:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I'm right in the middle of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.23,0:08:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these for some reason\Nchoke me up like crazy...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.72,0:08:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is a game called\N"Mexican Kitchen Workers."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.80,0:08:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And originally, it was\Na math problem, more or less.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.26,0:08:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the economics\Nof illegal immigration.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.36,0:08:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more I learned\Nabout Mexican culture...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.58,0:08:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My partner is Mexican —\NThe more I learned that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.87,0:08:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, for all of us,\Nfood is a basic need,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.23,0:08:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is obviously with Mexicans, too,\Nbut it's much more than that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.56,0:08:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an expression of love.\NIt's an expression of...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.01,0:08:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, I'm totally choking up\Nway more than I thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.49,0:08:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll look away from the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.38,0:08:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an expression of beauty,\Nit's how they say they love you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.70,0:08:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's how they say they care,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.08,0:08:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can't hear somebody\Ntalk about their Mexican grandmother
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.13,0:08:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without saying "food"\Nin the first sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.09,0:08:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so to me, this beautiful culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.27,0:09:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this beautiful expression is something\Nthat I want to capture through games.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.61,0:09:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so games, for a change,\Nit changes how we see topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.14,0:09:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it changes our perceptions\Nabout those people in topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.67,0:09:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it changes ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.42,0:09:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We change as people through games,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.63,0:09:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're involved, and we're playing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.69,0:09:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're learning as we do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.20,0:09:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.