Firestarter Games is a creative outlet for sharing our love of the outdoors through games. We design small, strategic and packable games that deliver travel-ready tabletop experiences.
From riverside to mountaintop, tent to cabin, we hope you’ll join us in celebrating the wild wonders of our world through play!
How it all started
We met as outdoor instructors working on Vancouver Island and spent our time off paddling rivers and playing board games. As winter came in 2021, we challenged ourselves to make a small game we could share with friends and pack on trips.
That became Downstream, and we paired it with Seb’s earlier design, Masters of Maple Syrup to start a small local production run. We sold to a few stores in our area and started our online store in 2023. We’ve been steadily working on getting our games to a wider audience ever since and are now working directly with retailers across Canada and around the world.
We’ve been fortunate to have many positive outdoor experiences in our lives and try to impart the lessons learned from them into each of our games.
Seb & Dan
Firestarter Games is based on the west coast of Canada on the traditional territories of the Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ, Kwakwaka’wakw A̱wi’nagwis, K’ómoks, We Wai Kum, We Wai Kai, and the nuučaan̓uuɫɁatḥ nism̓a.
