Emilee Choate

Brick by Brick

I completed graduate school for video game design in the spring of 2020, a moment I had been looking forward to for the better part of a decade. While congratulations were certainly in order, the occasion was far from happy. The novel Coronavirus canceled my ceremonial first steps into adulthood, and left me without a foothold in a world that was rapidly changing before me. I had a dream of designing narrative games for my own indie video game studio, spreading joy and wonder through my handmade creations as far as I could. As the world went into lockdown, my dream followed, under lock and key as something too risky to let see the light of day. Turns out my happiness went with it, connected by a thread I didn’t yet have the eyes to see.