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What was your most powerful Wu Wei
memory from that time?
build me. I found a way to deal Journey of the Changing Path

Kung Fu and Tai Chi helped re-

with my persistent depression. Justin Waggle’s Journey Enters the Realm of Gaming
My will became indomitable.
My reflexes improved and I my training. It struck me that these ordered sys-
became demonstrably smarter. I really can’t say tems could be broken down and simplified into
enough good things about the experience. Sijo shapes and that those shapes would then be go-
verned by outside
forces as well as
the intentions of
the players. In a
lot of ways, Wu
Wei is my wor-
king model of the
universe based on
Taoist themes and
martial arts prin-
ciples.

How does Wu Wei
differ from other
games? Why
should schools
and parents look
at it?
Carl Totton is a Grandmaster in Kung Fu and
holds in black belts in several other disciplines so Wu Wei is rooted in philosophy. I’ve noticed that
what we are learning is a distillation of his 50+ other games about martial arts tend to focus on
years in the martial arts. He’s a bad dude and spectacle and a sort of fantasy version of martial
the most accomplished man I’ve ever met. A true arts. Wu Wei can really get you to think like a
inspiration! martial artist. This emphasizes the warrior-scho-
lar over the athlete.
What other arts have you delved into if any?
Do you think this game will create a new para-
Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Kenpo, Lima Lama digm for young martial artists? Can it compete
with smart phones, etc.?
How did these experiences become of all things
a board game? Martial arts is an evolving living thing. Every
generation is going to be experiencing it in a di-
I woke up one morning with this crazy idea about fferent way. It used to be more of a secret and if
making a board game. It had been percolating for you got anything you were happy. Now it’s wides-
quite some time as I was trying to make sense of pread but the real stuff gets drowned out in the

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