Windrush Board Game Launch with Patricia Jones and Shaun Wallace from The Chase

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Shaun Wallace from The Chase has supported the development of ‘Ship Away’, a new board game by Chapeltown’s Patricia Jones which launched at the Leeds Caribbean & African Centre.

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00:00The game industry, I'm not really used to it, so, you know, it is a long process, which is good.

00:04So the game is actually transformed. It's a lot better, it's creating a lot of excitement,

00:09which is really good. So yeah, I'm really excited.

00:11Patricia Jones has been developing her Windrush-based board game since last year.

00:16Aiming to educate and entertain while celebrating Windrush pioneers,

00:21the game has since been revamped and supported by Quizmaster Sean Wallace from The Chase,

00:26who was at the launch event.

00:27I came up to do an event in Leeds, I think it was in the summer of 2023,

00:32and she approached me after I was leaving and was telling me about her board game.

00:36So she sent me a sort of prototype of the game, and it was interesting.

00:40It was a good idea, but it needed much more work on it.

00:42So a business partner of mine called Max Parts,

00:46and this is a brilliant games inventor, I introduced to Patricia,

00:49and, you know, they discussed it, and we now have a game which isn't

00:54removed from the idea what Patricia said, but it's a brilliant,

00:57brilliant, potentially exciting board game.

01:00It's about Windrush and the journey as well. It's got quiz, it's got cards as well.

01:05Sean is a Quizmaster on the cards, which is good because he is a brain box.

01:08So there's a lot of questions and answers.

01:11So it's a learning and educational project as well.

01:14So it is for the young and old, people can, you know,

01:16with the grandkids and everything, you know, they can learn so much.

01:18We want it to be a crossover board game, not simply

01:22a pigeonhole in relation to our own community.

01:24We should always celebrate the contribution that we as black people and the ethnic minority

01:30as well have made a significant contribution to Britain, and we'll continue to do so.

01:36I've learned so much because it was before it was just a basic board game,

01:40and now there's so many tweaks to it.

01:42It's actually, you can actually have a game and you can have three games in one.

01:45That's something I didn't know.

01:46And like I said, I didn't know the process would be so long,

01:49but I can see now why the process is so long.

01:52So yeah, we've definitely conquered something really good.

01:56She's realised that Rome wasn't built in a day.

01:57That's right.

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