Kushal always loved board games growing up as proved by the hundreds of hours spent bickering with family & friends over all-night games of Monopoly and many other similarly mediocre mass-market games. Not knowing that a world of better games existed, this interest went dormant and made way his truest passion & vocation— animation, art and film. Fast forward a good 15 some years to 2014 when Kushal met …you guessed it— Catan and everything changed. The deep love for boardgames came back with a vengeance. Now, as a professional storyteller, filmmaker, IP creator (at Moovix.ca), the connection felt much stronger, more mature and beyond just the thrill of gameplay. Seeing boardgames as yet another medium to tell stories was a mind-blowing revelation. With gorgeous art, thematic components to hold and interact with in your hands and immersive game mechanisms which complement the emotions the stories make you feel…it is the ultimate way for a storyteller to draw an audience into their world! Kushal hopes to explore this possibility first-hand with some ideas already brewing. Kushal loves discovering new games with different themes and will usually play all kinds of games from light party & abstracts to 2-3 hour heavier strategy games— of course, as long as they are aesthetically appealing & inviting (because, priorities).