Later, you’ll hear from his creative partner, cartoonist Matthew Inman, and they’re about to tell us the story of creating Exploding Kittens - one of the most popular card games in the world. JUNE COHEN: That’s game developer Elan Lee.
So I resolved to start a new kind of entertainment company that celebrated that connectivity. The games were just the tool set to allow us to have those experiences. When I think back to my childhood playing games with my siblings, I don’t even remember the games. Within two weeks, I resigned from Microsoft, thinking, “I can’t be part of this problem anymore. And so I was clearly part of the problem. Here we were, a family having a mini reunion, and they weren’t even looking up. And as a result, the players became unimportant. Everything I did involved putting people in front of screens, building games where all the focus was on the games instead of the players. I was the chief design officer at the Xbox. To make it worse, it was a video game that I helped design. I’m so excited to see everybody.” My brother has two young kids and they were both just glued to the screen, this video game they were playing. I walk in the front door and I’m like, “Hey, everybody, I’m here. ELAN LEE: I walked to my brother’s house.
