We were lucky to get the acclaimed video game journalist Zoyander Street to interview the production team on how they approached the unique, integrated design challenge of Beasts of Balance. Read on below to see what they said, and what makes Beasts of Balance so unique.

How do you find a family game that is simple enough for kids to pick up, but potentially complex enough to engage adults – and addictive enough to play again and again? There’s no definitive answer here, but we’ve put together our list of the 14 best family games that we feel you can play at home with friends or family (or both!) and make sure everyone has fun.

Did you know that over the holiday season, there were nearly 70,000 tower collapses? Or that, on average, the Miracle of Distraction Artefact probably took you around 16 seconds to stack?

It’s been quite a year! As we kick back for the holidays, why not stack up a couple of mince pies and a sherry or two, and catch up on the highlights of the (frankly improbable) stuff we got up to in 2016.

We want to see what you make! Go crazy. Remix the models to your hearts content. Play with materials, finishes and household objects. Beasts of Balance was born of the maker movement so we can’t wait to see what the community does with our designs.

Beasts of Balance was inspired by nature and here at Sensible Object we passionately believe that safeguarding our planet is one of the biggest priorities facing us as a species.

One of the final steps in transforming our game from concept into a physical product, manufacturing Beasts of Balance has been an incredibly long—and loving—process.

Nautilus researchers described it as looking “as if someone had dropped their toy”, which we felt was quite fitting as it looks exactly as if one of our game pieces fell off the boat on its way to the US.