Chris Pender
Owner
I hand craft and sell the board game The Game of REAL LIFE. I was born in rural Ohio. Then my family moved to the inner city of Akron, Ohio when I was ten. I went to Connecticut College for two years then The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. I live ten years in NYC pursuing an acting career. I performed at The Met (as an acrobat) and then played Mordred in the national tour of Camelot. I then moved to Eugene, Oregon, created my board game and have been selling it for twenty-five years.
June 3, 2021
Interview with Chris Pender
As you know from my other episodes, I read about board games a lot. While reading It's All a Game, I came across a designer that thought The Game of Life was too happy and needed to have decision-making and …