CONNECTIONS™is visually designed to portray connecting and disconnecting habits in a subtle yet distinctive and appealing manner that does not distract from the game’s underlying goal – to be the best person you can be.

The Game Box reflects the global nature of personal connections and the pressures that accompany connective actions and habits. Isobars indicate the constantly changing pressures intrinsically incorporated in connective behavior and interaction. The Mercator projection map, coupled with the superposition of CONNECTIONS™, implies a level playing field.

The Game Board is clean in design, basic in color scheme and carries in the background the global geographic elements from the box cover. It is visually constructed to enable players to focus on the game’s intent instead of its design.

Movable elements of CONNECTIONS™ – cards and player pieces – are eclectic in a design that cuts a broad swath across human interaction and history. Playing cards feature medieval life scenes that clearly portray positive (negotiating) connecting habits or negative (aggressive) behavior. These are an Old World element reflecting external elements over which people have little control.

The player pieces, dense rubber automobiles, meanwhile, are contemporary and reflect the New World facet whereby people are in more control of their lives. The automobiles portray a player’s ability in life to use connecting habits to select destinations and to control methods of reaching goals by propelling and steering: You can choose your path, you can steer your course, you can select your speed, all through the power of CONNECTIONS™.

CONNECTIONS™ graphic design and development by G Creative & VanNoppen Marketing, both Morganton, NC firms.

Inventor Ronnie L. Mace, Reality Therapy certified and Chief Financial Officer of Blue Ridge Community Action, Inc., a Morganton, N.C. non-profit, low-income assistance organization. Reality Therapy certified means that Mace has demonstrated knowledge in the concepts and principles of Choice Theory®, Reality Therapy and Lead-Management as authored and endorsed by Dr. William Glasser and the William Glasser Institute respectively. Ronnie was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action during the Vietnam War, experiences that helped shape the person he is today; a person who has overcome many of life’s pitfalls and made a positive contribution to helping others do the same. Ronnie can be reached through e-mail, rlmace@theconnectionsgame.com.