Our Story

Waterfall, Waterfall… …WATERFALL!!! 

Everything started with a waterfall, while we were at Iceland in 2022 doing an 11-days long road trip. At some point while driving I just started to shout waterfall every time I saw one. And in late spring there were a lot of those: the snow was melting on top of the mountains and the water strains formed new ones everywhere!

It became a thing. We started to spot waterfalls and it became a small fun game activity for us. At some point after shouting waterfalls for days, these words just flew out of my mouth: “It would be so cool if there would be a game where you’re collecting waterfalls”. I immediately got super excited about it and my mind started to brainstorming…

You see, I am a creative person. But before this trip, my creative spark was dying. As excited as I was about making a game, I had multiple doubts and “buts”. 

I was not really a Game Designer. I had never made any games and I knew so little about board games in general. But still, this idea started to haunt me. 

After that amazing life-changing trip to Iceland, I decided to give it a go. I was gonna design a game about waterfalls!  I saw this as a sign from the universe, after a long period of time when my creativity was held somewhere dark, to take this mission.

I took just a sheet of paper and I started to draw very ugly bizarre drawings about waterfalls and cut them into pieces.  And 3-days later my first ever set-collecting game had formed! I was so damn proud of myself. I made it! And the flame I thought I had lost forever, ignited again. Maybe this is something I wanna keep doing? 

After the Waterfall game came many others… (You’ll hear more about those when the time’s right) 

But the first one to see the daylight will be Bomb Away, to which we have given all our spare time, love (and mental-health) since I got this idea in the summer of 22.

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–ShyFinnGames