As is often the case, the idea to create such a project was born while I was playing with my children. First, the idea of creating a card game came to us. We came up with the idea, prepared the drawings, cut out the figures/cards from cardboard, and started playing. Hmm, it worked out well! The kids loved the game, even though it was a DIY hand-drawn version!

So, it was necessary to look for an artist who would draw everything much better, and to print the real game in a real printing house. But we didn’t want our idea to just become a game or some other project, lacking a grand-scale approach… So we decided that we needed to expand our idea! We needed to come up with new adventures and new unusual products for our characters that would somehow be associated with them. So the idea started to evolve, and it got its name, Bankerz. Now, there is a card game, Safes and Thieves, and there are various products under one brand. 

I wanted to add some kind of educational “ingredient” to our project. Something that could hold the attention of children, over which they could think, and think logically. Tearing children away from the screens of smartphones or computers is extremely important! Each package of a Bankerz product contains an insert; a sheet with some kind of maths problem or puzzle. It is interesting and useful.