It's never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies -- so when Brenda Romero's daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living -- she designed a game. She describes the surprising effectiveness of this game, and others, in helping the player really understand the story.
For decades, Brenda Romero has been a major figure in the field of game design. After a long career as a game designer, she became an educator. She teaches the next generation of artists, coders, and mechanics how to create the world’s most popular media form. A game is the tool she uses to think about problems, to explain, to put concepts into form.