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Rule Breaker Investing

Wingspan: Designing a Blockbuster Game with Elizabeth Hargrave

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Even if you don't play games, you know what they're about, right? Wars, power, control, money... dudes on a map trying to take over the world! But what if a game was about birds? Butterflies? Mushrooms? Today we talk with Elizabeth Hargrave, one of today's most successful game designers, responsible for the instant-classic, Wingspan. Bringing a feminine aesthetic, along with a formidable business acumen, she is advancing the game industry into the modern era.

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Elizabeth Hargrave
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0

Breaking the rules is an approach that works well in investing and in business and in life.

0:07.2

And for nine years now with this podcast, I've tried, I try to speak to all three, never one without the other two, never two without the third investing,

0:16.4

business life, they're all intermingled.

0:20.3

But as Yoda once said, there is another.

0:25.0

That was at the end of the Empire Strikes Back.

0:28.0

spoiler alert, he was referring to Princess Leah Organa of Alderman.

0:32.0

For me, there is another references a fourth gravitational force around which

0:38.0

this podcast rotates. As any longtime listener will know, that is games. Investing, business, life games.

0:47.3

And this week I get to introduce you to the designer of one of the most successful and decorated board games of the past decade.

0:55.0

Her name is Elizabeth Hargrave and her game played it?

1:00.0

Wingspan.

1:01.0

Elizabeth Hargrave. Wingspan. Elizabeth Hargrave.

1:02.8

Wingspan.

1:04.3

Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

1:07.3

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

1:17.0

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

1:19.0

Over the years I've shared with you many of my favorite tabletop gaming recommendations, my Games Games Game series

1:26.1

that leads off every December before the holidays before holiday gifts. So yeah

1:31.1

that's coming again soon.

1:32.8

Fool's and I have welcomed world-class game designers like Richard Garfield who created

1:38.8

Magic the Gathering or Rob Davio, the godfather of Legacy Games, Reiner Canizia, the good doctor, one of the first,

1:46.0

maybe the first person to make a full-time career out of game design and others.

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