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hen Sir Ian Livingstone was at
school he used to play a lot of
Monopoly. “I was pretty good at it,” he
tells The Week Junior, but then, he says
he discovered a strategy game called
Diplomacy, “and I realised there’s more
to life than Monopoly, which is
a game of luck”.
Livingstone went
on to write the
interactive book
series Fighting
Fantasy and helped
launch the company
Games Workshop.
In January 2022,
Livingstone made history
by becoming the first person
to be knighted for services to gaming.
Livingstone says the games industry
has deserved awards for a long time.
“I hope there’ll be more knighthoods
and damehoods to follow,” he says.Livingstone has played a lot of
games over the years and picking
a favourite is difficult. “I’ve got
a collection of more than 1,
board games at home,” he says. His
favourites include Ticket to Ride and
Century: Spice Road, and his
favourite video games
are strategy games
such as Civilization.
Livingstone
wants young people
to learn more digital
skills to prepare
them for the future.
Livingstone believes
that by playing games,
young people can learn a lot
of important life skills. “You cannot
get through a game without problem
solving,” he says. “You’re encouraged
to try and over time everyone can
become a winner.”The knight of
gaming history
A kindness ambassador
Collecting for the future
F
or more than 60 years, Elizabeth Meaders has been
collecting items that tell the history of black
Americans in the US. Now aged 89, the former
teacher’s collection contains about 20,000 artefacts
including art, military objects, posters and sports
memorabilia (items connected to a pastime, event or
person). It has been called one of the most complete
visions of African-American history and culture ever
assembled. The collection goes on sale later this
month and can only be bought as a whole. “This is
the story of a people, and in telling a story of a
people, you don’t pull out pieces of a puzzle,”
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D
uring the pandemic, Orion Jean, an 11-year-old in
the US, saw how some people were finding life
difficult and he wanted to do something to help. After
winning a school speech contest, he decided to use
the prize money to set up a kindness project. Called
“Race to Kindness”, Jean’s scheme inspires people to
spread kindness through different events. One of
these was a race to give 500,000 books to young
people in need. For his work, Jean has now been
named by Time magazine as its 2021 Kid of the Year.
In an interview with actor Angelina Jolie for the
magazine, Jean said, “Kindness is a choice and while
we can’t force others to be kind, we can be kind
ourselves and hope to inspire other people.”“The goal isn’t to
live forever, the
goal is to create
something
that will.”
Jamal Edwards, who died on
20 February, explains his attitude
to life. Edwards created the SBTV
YouTube channel, which helped
launch the careers of musicians
including Ed Sheeran.