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The Des Moines Register pimps Merle Rasmussen, designer of Top Secret RPG, numerous D&D modules, and apparently a bunch of Monopoly clones. He’s working on a game for On With Life, a game-aware organization that assists in brain injury rehabilitation. (source)
Collider.com interviews Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner about upcoming licensed board game movies. (source)
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Wow. I’m a total Top Secret junky and just seeing Merle’s name again gave me goosebumps!
Those Hasbro board game movies sound awesome… NOT! Candy Land a big adventure? It’s drawing cards until someone turns out to have had the most lucK!
Obviously, the movie will simply inherit something about the theme from the game, not the game-play.
Hasbro’s idea is that brand-recognition will automatically draw kids to see these movies, regardless of how good they are. They should know: they’ve been doing the reverse for board games for decades.
There’s always the chance that one or two of them are actually good, too. But zero chance that they are actually great (i.e. seminal, classic, art).