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WATCH: K.I.D. Group’s Dan Klitsner talks Go! Go! Worms, Bop It and how you define success as a designer with University Games’ Bob Moog
Posted on 30th March 2020By Billy Langsworthy
At this year’s New York Toy Fair, University Games president Bob Moog sat down with K.I.D. Group’s Dan Klitsner to talk game design as part of the firm’s UG Studios video series.
In the video, the two cover Klitsner’s beginnings in the industry – with early inventions including Milton Bradley’s Go! Go! Worms and Parker Brothers’ Gum Guys – to the success of Bop It, as well as delving into how to define success as a game designer.
Check out the video below:
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