With their team gone, Brode and Dodds spent the next nine months drawing numbers and pictures on paper cards. Every day, they had a group of willing guinea pigs in Schwab and the others who wanted a break from Battle.net drudgery. Brode was a fountain of experimental new ideas, while Dodds was adept at figuring out what was the most fun. “To me that was some of the magic,” said Dodds. “Brode going, ‘What about this?’ and me trying to stop the flood and get us to a place where we were both excited.”
