BACKGROUND
“We met while we were very young, in 1999. Markus was an insurance salesman – he still is – and I worked in a hotel, at the reception. My first birthday present to Markus was to visit a Settlers of Catan convention organised by Kosmos Games, and when we arrived at our hotel they offered us a prototype workshop where we could playtest things. We hadn’t ever done that before, and after the convention we thought: that is something we want to do. So we started inventing games, mainly family games… But seven years passed without success. We just wanted to walk into a shop and see something we’d made. That was our biggest dream.”