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This is the game, which I've ended up calling The New World, because I like the phrase.
這就是那個游戲，我后來給它起了個名字叫做《新世界》，因為我喜歡這個叫法。
I don't think the New World felt too new worldly exciting to the people who were brought over on slave ships.
我不認為“新世界”會帶來什么世俗的興奮感，尤其對于那些曾經從奴隸船上下來的人們。
But when this happened, I saw the whole planet.
但當這一切發生時，我看到了整個世界。
I was so excited. It was like, I'd been making games for 20-some years, and then I decided to do it again.
我感覺太激動了。這就像是，我設計游戲已經超過二十年，而我決定再做一些類似的游戲。
My history is Irish.
我的故鄉是愛爾蘭。
So this is a game called Siochan Leat. It's "peace be with you."
這個游戲叫做“Siochan Leat”。意思是《和平與你同在》。
It's the entire history of my family in a single game.
僅僅這一個游戲就包含了我的整個家族史。
I made another game called Train.
我設計了另一款游戲叫做《列車》。
I was making a series of six games that covered difficult topics,
我制作了一個系列的六款游戲都是關于沉重的主題，
and if you're going to cover a difficult topic, this is one you need to cover,
如果你要討論一個沉重的主題，就需要這樣的游戲來開展
and I'll let you figure out what that's about on your own.
我會讓你自己通過游戲來發現關于這個主題的一切。
And I also made a game about the Trail of Tears.
我還創作了一款游戲叫做《淚痕》
This is a game with 50,000 individual pieces.
這個游戲有著5萬個獨立的零件。
I was crazy when I decided to start it, but I'm in the middle of it now.
我當時肯定是瘋了才決定要設計它，不過我現在已經進行了近一半。
It's the same thing.
這和之前的游戲是類似的。
I'm hoping that I'll teach culture through these games.
我希望通過這些游戲來傳授文化。
And the one I'm working on right now, which is --
而我現在正在著手設計的游戲是——
because I'm right in the middle of it, and these for some reason choke me up like crazy
因為我正在全心投入，所以想到它很容易使我情緒波動
is a game called Mexican Kitchen Workers.
這個游戲叫做《墨西哥廚房工人》。
And originally it was a math problem more or less.
最初它差不多只是一個數學問題的游戲。
Like, here's the economics of illegal immigration.
就像，關于非法移民的經濟學問題。
And the more I learned about the Mexican culture
之后，隨著我學到越來越多的墨西哥文化
my partner is Mexican the more I learned that,
我的搭檔是墨西哥人，我越來越發現，
you know, for all of us, food is a basic need, but,
你知道，對于我們所有人來說，食物是基本的需求，
and it is obviously with Mexicans too, but it's much more than that.
當然對墨西哥人也是，但對他們來說食物的含義遠不止如此。
It's an expression of love.
食物是愛的表達。
It's an expression of God, I'm totally choking up way more than I thought.
它是...上帝，我沒想到我會這么哽咽。
I'll look away from the picture.
我還是先不看這張照片好了。
It's an expression of beauty. It's how they say they love you.
它是美的表達。這是他們表達他們愛你的方式。
It's how they say they care, and you can't hear somebody
這是他們表達在乎的方式。任何一個墨西哥人
talk about their Mexican grandmother without saying "food" in the first sentence.
談起他的祖母，第一句中一定會有"食物"。
And so to me, this beautiful culture,
對我來說，這種美麗的文化，
this beautiful expression is something that I want to capture through games.
這種美麗的表達方式正是我想要通過游戲捕捉的東西。
And so games, for a change, it changes how we see topics,
因此游戲能夠帶來改變，它改變了我們討論主題的方式，
it changes how our perceptions about those people in topics, and it changes ourselves.
它改變了我們對那些主題中人物的看法，它也改變了我們自己。
We change as people through games,
我們通過玩游戲發生改變，
because we're involved, and we're playing,
因為我們既是玩游戲的人，又是游戲的一部分，
and we're learning as we do so. Thank you.
與此同時，我們能學到東西。謝謝。
