Falling Up Stairs Games

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🎲 Indie startup designing strategy board games 🖨️ Prototyping, including 3D printing (and creative chaos) 📈 Working on establishing our presence **(Also, we’re nerds)**

Underwater video showing me holding a deck of Hoyle Waterproof playing cards, shuffling & dealing, on a light gray ledge in a swimming pool.
Sell sheet for a card game titled "Creatures of Darkness". The sheet features a dark, misty background with a central red and blue hexagonal emblem containing the game's title in a stylized, bloody font. Text below reads: "Survive the Night. Become the Hunter; or the Hunted," followed by a paragraph describing an 18th-century mountain village filled with vampires, necromancers, and werewolves.
A close-up of the box for "Cat Spotting: A Card Game About Finding Cats!" The cover features a dense, collage-style pattern of various cartoon cats illustrated in a black-and-white comic style
A card game setup for "Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition" laid out on a polished wooden coffee table. The game components include white answer cards with black text reading "Family Edition," black prompt cards, and the game's black-and-white patterned box sitting next to a yellow card holder. To the far left, a large, green geometric 3d printed frog wearing a thin metal chain sits on the table.
A video opening on a brightly colored, spinning digital decision wheel from Wheel of Names loaded with 128 different game titles. The wheel lands on "Go Fish" then spins again, landing on “Herd Mentality.” The video then cuts to a close-up of a digital tournament bracket spreadsheet, showing "Go Fish" and "Herd Mentality" matched up against each other for Round 1.
A top-down view of a player tableau for the game Earth. It features a 4x4 grid of cards displaying vibrant nature and wildlife photographs. Colorful tokens are placed on various scoring tracks along the cards.
The box art for the board game "Catan: Starfarers" by Klaus Teuber. The artwork features a dramatic sci-fi space scene, showcasing a large space station orbiting a green and blue planet, with a smaller spaceship flying forward in the foreground. A brilliant sun rises over the planet's horizon against a backdrop of a colorful nebula galaxy and deep space. The top center features the game title "CATAN STARFARERS" in bold gold lettering, and the bottom edge displays the tagline "EXPLORE TRADE DISCOVER.”
A screen recording of a Google Sheets spreadsheet displaying a 128-game single-elimination tournament bracket titled "Favorite Game Ever Tournament". The video pans down columns representing different tournament rounds, showing a list of 104 board game titles. Text prompts in purple appear over the video as it scrolls. The prompts read in sequence: "Welcome to the Ultimate Board and Card Game Tournament!", "128 Games", "Heavy Strategy / Party Games / Classics", "Still have 24 open slots. What games am I missing?", and "Your votes pick the winner."
A close-up, top-down view of a hand wearing a dark ring, using a fine-tip pen to carefully ink a stylized creature design in a spiral-bound sketchbook.
Handwriting on a dry-erase card from the board game Telestrations that reads "Robbing Toad".
Handwriting on a dry-erase card from the board game Telestrations that reads "desertification".
Handwriting on a dry-erase card from the board game Telestrations that reads "Beam me up helicopter (Scottie?)".
Handwriting on a dry-erase card from the board game Telestrations that reads "DaVinci's helicopter design" inside an oval, with the name "Kyle" written at the bottom.
Handwriting on a dry-erase card from the board game Telestrations that reads "DaVinci's helicopter design" inside an oval, with the name "Kyle" written at the bottom.
Product shot of the box cover for the board game "Fountains". The title is displayed at the top in large, teal, stylized lettering. The central illustration features an ornate, multi-tiered classical fountain flowing with vibrant turquoise water. Inside the fountain pools are floating lily pads and various colored koi fish (orange, white, and black). The creators "Kedric Winks" and "Shaun Ellis" are credited in the bottom-left corner, and "The Op Games" logo is in the bottom-right. Illustrated koi fish and circular pond tiles with lily pads dynamically accent the space outside the box frame.
A colorful image of a gallimimus, slender, long-necked, bipedal, captured in a mid-stride or running pose. The body is patterned with irregular patches of light blue and soft orange-brown.
A video showing the post-processing of 3D-printed purple prototype game tokens on a wooden surface. A hand picks up a token debossed with the number "5" and cleanly peels away its plastic support brim, revealing a crisp edge. The hand then turns the token over to show a split-pot wavy curve accent on the back, and spins it on the table. Two other tokens, labeled "1" and "10," sit nearby. On-screen text overlays appear sequentially: "The most satisfying part of 3D printing..." "Peeling supports" "These coins for the prototype came out really clean" "I slightly lowered the number & the split pot curve vs the brim, and I really like how that feels" "Not sure what the final game version will be, but loving these for now, can't wait to play test with them"
Side-by-side comparison of two design versions for a tabletop game card from Falling Up Stairs Games. The card is titled "REVENANT" with a large number 4 icon in the top left. The flavor text reads: "A spirit who reanimates a corpse, seeking to kill the living." The card gameplay text reads: "Action: Take any Corporeal or Undead Card from the Graveyard AND perform their Action." "IF Survived: Place in the Survivor Deck, Kill the Taken Card AND Draw 2 from the Draw Deck." The two versions feature different illustrations of the same green-eyed, dark-haired creature: Left Version: The creature is in a low, predatory crouch, glaring intensely forward with claws planted on the ground. Right Version: The creature is more upright, viewed from the waist up, raising one long-clawed hand high in the air while reaching forward with the other.
A screen capture from the home page of Bluesky user at FUSGames, short for Falling Up Stairs Games. 66 Posts is circled in blue, referencing Order 66 from Star Wars. Spoiler Alert for Star Wars. Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, uses Order 66 to turn the Clone Troopers against the Jedi using genetic programming.
Screen recording of a 3D modeling interface in Tinkercad. The video shows orange game coins labeled with the numbers 1, 5, and 10 being modified next to separate outer rings. A cursor clicks and drags the dimensions of the rings, expanding them to fit snugly over the borders of the coins to create a new, raised outer rim. The denominations are scaled up in size sequentially.
A blue promotional banner for a Bluesky Starter Pack titled "Indie Tabletop Devs & Game Makers to Watch." The banner features a horizontal row of seven circular profile pictures of indie game creators.
A game studio logo draft for "Falling Up Stairs Games.” It features a bright yellow warning sign style image with a stick figure falling up a staircase, dropping game components including a board and meeples.
A top-down digital view of an Axis & Allies World War II board game map being played on a computer screen. The map shows territories across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific with colored tokens representing military units. The camera pans across the above regions showing specific troop concentrations, factories, and income values, while the narrator discusses strategies.
A close-up video of sample coin prototypes for an in-development board game. The game’s designer (me, Harrison) discusses the coins via voiceover. The video then shows the designer comparing the 3D-printed plastic prototypes of the game coins to a real United States quarter to illustrate scale.
A computer screen displays a 3D modeling workspace in Tinkercad containing various game pieces for a board game about serving hot pot. The objects include circular currency coins labeled 1, 5, and 10, a small cup, a larger bowl, and rows of small red cubes. The focus of the video shifts between two specific shapes being evaluated for victory points: a torus (doughnut shape) and a pyramid. On-screen text at the start reads "Design Roadblock," and a text overlay near the end asks "Torus or Pyramid?"
Video of me (Harrison) in a car describing an option that came up in a recent playtest of a new party game. Should we ask players to provide their own paper, or should we include tokens?
A video showcasing several very rough playtest components. Includes player boards, Host Cards, a beverage & dessert tracker, and teases what Guest cards might look like
A graphic logo for "Falling Up Stairs Games" designed like a bright yellow caution sign with a black border. It features a black stick figure comically tripping upward on a set of black stairs. The words "FALLING UP STAIRS" are staggered dynamically along the steps in a bold black font, with a red exclamation point replacing the 'I' in falling. At the very bottom, the word "GAMES" is written in white text inside the staircase.