I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. So using my time at home to do interviews, which is harder to do in the car.

And so today I have Dave Humphreys, and we're going to talk all about Kamagawa Neon Dynasty.

Hey, Dave.

Hey, how's everyone?

Okay, so this is a set in which I led the vision design, and you led the set design.

So, you and I are the two main design people on this set as far as leading stuff.

So, mostly I want to talk about set design, because if people want to hear about vision design, I have a whole podcast on that.

Um, so let's start the story of you get handed the set. I mean, now, you were on, you were on the vision design team. So it wasn't like you didn't know what was coming. But let's start the story with, okay, you put your set design team together and you start set design yeah so right again this was

certainly a little bit of a tricky setting for me just in terms of like i'd played the original

comicawabwe block um but yeah i i certainly don't know some of the tropp space in the in the background

here as much as a lot of other people so i was really really trying to reach out and look for other people who,

you know, would be inspired and able to help sort of shore up my weaknesses. I reached out to

sort of people on our dual masters team to see if anyone from the Tokyo office could help out.

And, you know, I pretty quickly found out that, like, Kui Churamaki, would be able to join us, at least for some of our meetings. And then, like,

like, also in-house Yuki Fuji would help translate for him during our meetings. And we also

had some one-off meetings and just, I wanted to get right off with a perspective of, yeah, like, you know, what's going to seem

appropriate for like a Japanese, Japanese audience and sort of the sensibilities that they felt

would make sense. And so I was, yeah, at first I was just really excited to be able to bring

that perspective because I knew there, yeah, there would be a lot of issues that we would want to treat right.

And it was just, I'd be curious in terms of like weighing in like what were popular mechanics and cards and what did we not do right.

And so yeah, Maki and Fuji were great help in getting the ball rolling.

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