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I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is The Road to Now.

You may have seen the episode title for this one and thought, did they just interview Ben Sawyer?

And the answer to that is complicated because, yes, we did just interview Ben Sawyer. And the answer to that is complicated because, yes, we did just interview Ben Sawyer, but it's a different Ben Sawyer. It's Ben Sawyer from Digimil. He's a game creator.

He creates serious games. These are basically games that you use to educate people.

And I've always figured that it was pretty difficult to balance education with making interesting games.

I only had skim the surface, and it turns out this is a really difficult task.

But Ben Sawyer, the other Ben Sawyer, that is, he's done a great job of doing this throughout his career,

and he's now applied his skills to creating a new history game called Revolutionary Choices.

The game is not quite out yet. It should be out soon, but he did send me a demo game, and I got to play it.

And it's pretty remarkable. It did exactly what it's supposed to do, and I won't spoil it, but you'll hear why the game itself did a really good job of kind of throwing me into the frustration

of trying to fight the American Revolution when you don't have supplies or soldiers or status

or anything like that. Overall, it was a great conversation, and I hope you guys enjoy it a lot. It was fun for me. I said, I'm going to sit down and play this revolutionary choices game, this demo, and I was like, I play it for like, you know, 30 minutes to get ready. And I think it's been a couple hours playing it. I had to stop to do the interview. It's really fun. And I think that it's aimed at school kids and I think

it's going to be a great thing. So definitely look out for it. As he says in the episode,

you can find out more at revchoicesgame.org. Anyway, it's been a good week. Friday night,

I did a reading at our local bookstore called the Bookshop here in East Nashville. And

the theme was America.

It's the thing they do there called Adult Storytime.

And Joelle Hur, who owns the shop, she invites three people to read for 15 minutes from one of their favorite books.

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