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Brent Bushnell

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2015-11-18

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2015-11-18

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1. “I have such a fun job every single day. I get to build the crazy games that we bring out and show people a good time. So I want to set the stage for you at the Steam Carnival because the Steam Carnival is full of games that me and my team have created. You're going to walk into this event and you're going to see an entire carnival midway. And every single game, you think you know what's going on. But what we've done is we've thrown away what you know about the carnival and we've replaced it with next generation entertainment. So we're taking sensors that have gotten incredibly cheap because of the proliferation of smartphone technology. We're taking Arduinos, raspberry pies, Intel Edison's really available technologies that kids can use to make their own projects. We're using those technologies and we're building crazy games with them. That's my job every day is taking these technologies, figuring out how can we make this fun? How can we play with social dynamics, play with technology?”

   2015-11-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Yeah, and really we have two goals here. One is inspire inventors, right? Let's get kids excited about being able to create, being able to use tools, being able to program. And also, let's get people playing together again. You know, technology isolates us. The fact that I can play a social game alone on my iPhone is ridiculous. We want people playing together eye to eye, having a blast in the same room, you know, get people back out again.”

   2015-11-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “He did one on our stage? We did after years of doing other people's events, we said, hey, we should do our own event. We had all these parents and teachers saying, hey, our kids love what you guys are doing. They think it's super cool. And we sort of made us realize there was an opportunity to reframe what it means to be a nerd. So we launched our own event to basically convey to kids, hey, engineering's the new rock and roll. And we called it Steam Carnival for science, technology.”

   2015-11-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “And we are building big games. We're getting people to play together. For years have done huge events for Amazon and Intel in the Super Bowl.”

   2015-11-18 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT