Interview: Brenda Brathwaite on Loot Drop -- Finding Love and Money in Social Gaming

Loot Drop is a newly-formed social game development studio featuring five heavy-hitters from the console and classic computer game industry. Of these veterans — John Romero, Brenda Brathwaite, Tom Hall, Rob Sirotek, and Laralyn McWilliams — only two represent the core demographic that social games cater towards: 46-year-old McWilliams and 44-year-old Brathwaite. We picked Brathwaite’s brains about the social games industry as well as her work on Ravenwood Fair while still at LOLapps with Romero and discovered some of what the social games industry has to teach video game developers and vice-versa.

First Comes Fun

“Put fun first,” she tells us.

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