­­On the heels of the COVID pandemic and the requirement to stay home, my 6-year-old daughter had gotten far too accustomed to electronics. She wanted to watch TV or Youtube all the time and only showed a passion for the channels she loved. She even wanted to have the TV on during dinner! Often disregarding everything and everyone around her because she was too immersed in her shows. My daughter is also extremely competitive, a quality that is great to have if only you were also a gracious loser. Sadly, she is not one and often chooses not to play to avoid losing. Better to not play than to lose, right? This sometimes made it difficult for us to play with her and her brother. I knew I had to step up and do something different. Something needed to be done to change how we interacted as a family. I knew I had to nourish her love for competition and turn it into something positive. Tabletop games are a passion of mine; it seemed like the perfect thing to try with her. We started playing the games that 6-year-olds would enjoy, and I knew that it would not take long for her competitiveness to spark a passion for board games. Little by little, she started asking to play board games and turned off the TV! The more games I introduced, the more she wanted to play different games. My son also got into games, although he’s still too little to play many since he is only 4. However, he loves the family connection and attention we give them during game time.

This is when I decided that it would be my life mission to make the games that my kids love to play. Although we have created many other games before, we acquired Gotrovo because we saw the same passion for kids’ game and the same attention to details that the previous owners had shown to the game, and we wanted to continue to grow this catalog of games for kids, as long as my kids will also love and play them. Our kids are our reason to create, and if they play, we will continue to make the games my kids, and hopefully yours, will love as well.