--- title: The game’s the thing | daily.dev description: MIT senior Kayode Dada, a mechanical engineering major who has designed board games since high school, created a trading-card game called 'Campus Trade' used... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-game-s-the-thing-th5bcnk7t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The game’s the thing | daily.dev og:description: MIT senior Kayode Dada, a mechanical engineering major who has designed board games since high school, created a trading-card game called 'Campus Trade' used... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-game-s-the-thing-th5bcnk7t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Th5bCNK7t.png og:image:alt: The game’s the thing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The game’s the thing **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT senior Kayode Dada, a mechanical engineering major who has designed board games since high school, created a trading-card game called 'Campus Trade' used as an icebreaker during MIT Orientation. Working with a research designer at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Constructive Communication, he redesigned the game after observing that students traded cards without talking, adding tarot-sized cards with student artwork and icebreaker questions. Dada also blogs for MIT Admissions and serves as an orientation captain, and hopes to pursue a career in game design after graduation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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