Numlock Sunday: Uri Bram, Person Do Thing
By Walt Hickey
Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.
This week, I spoke to my friend Uri Bram. He’s currently the writer of the newsletter Atoms vs. Bits, and he’s the publisher of the newsletter The Browser.
Uri’s been working on a really fun project lately expanding out a party puzzle game he designed several years ago into — Person Do Thing — into full-fledged physical game that he’s been getting made, shipped, packaged and sold to launch this Fall. Being the huge fan I am of his work and just so fascinated by how stuff gets made, I wanted to talk to him all about what it’s like to both design a game and participate in global trade in Spring 2025.
The game’s great, and if you’re into party games like Codenames or Taboo and the like you’d probably dig it and should check out a preorder. Either way, hope you enjoy our chat.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Alright, hey man, thanks so much for coming on. I’ve been looking to get you on Numlock for, I think, years at this p…