Ben Brode bets super speed will make Marvel Snap stand out
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Marvel Snap is a new digital collectible card game from Second Dinner, a team headed by former Hearthstone lead Ben Brode.
Hearthstone became the undisputed king of the digital CCG world. So Brode’s next project was always going to come with some big expectations. Add the Marvel license, and you have the makings of a juggernaut.
I had a chance to chat with Brode about Marvel Snap. You can read an edited transcript of that interview below.
GamesBeat: You were the public face of Hearthstone. What was it like being in the trenches for a while, being in development without having that public-facing role?
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Brode: It was a lot of fun, actually. I went through the phase of being focused on management, and then when we first started Second Dinner, it was just me and Hamilton [Chu] sitting in this room, this couch and that couch, thinking up ideas for new games and imagining what a cool Marvel game could look like. The pace was totally different. I had no meetings. No people to meet with. Just me and Hamilton.
As we started adding the rest of the founding crew and growing the studio over the last four years, it’s been slowly growing and growing. Now we have an incredible team, firing on all cylinders on this game that we had the first idea about four years ago.
GamesBeat: You led a team before. Did that prepare you for this role, leading a whole development studio? Were there some challenges you didn’t foresee?
Brode: In
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