My name Is Dan Sullivan, and I am the inventor of the exciting new game MatchShot. Here is a little bit about how MatchShot came to be…
Sitting on the beach one day, with my kids who are now in their 20s, I was watching them play all these different beach games. Some of the classics but also some new ones. At one point I asked my daughter which game she was playing. She told me, and then asked,” Dad why don’t you invent a game?”
I started to think what game could I invent in which the entire family could play. Young kids all the way up to grand parents. This became my mission.
First thing I decided was that I should talk to people and find out what they liked. I started talking to friends, family, even people at the beach I did not know. I talked to as many people as I could. I figured it was in the hundreds based on my notes. I came away with a few themes…
Three main themes kept coming up. One was that most of the people age 30 and up did not like to play a game where they are required to run, jump and dive. People under the age of 30 said if the game was fun, it did not matter. Many also thought tossing something into or at something was enjoyable. Its also important to note that many of the people over 30 said they would love a game that they could play with their kids…with the entire family.
Some of the other things which were often mentioned were that people wanted something easily portable. A game they could take to the beach, a backyard barbecue or even to a park with ease. They also mentioned it would be great if it also could be played in doors during the winter or on rainy days.
The last theme is one in which I would have never thought. Most everyone talked about a game that needed to be social, needed to be where everyone was involved. They said it is better when all the players in a game are on one side. Opponents, teammates…it didn’t matter as long as everyone was together. I received a lot of great feedback. Now it was time to get to work
My son was juggling in the house one day I asked him to throw me one of the beanballs he was using. I thought something like this would be easy to toss. I then had to think, what to toss them into or toward. So, I took a piece of wood. Two feet by two feet and grabbed a few different sized bowls. I put the bowls upside down and penciled around them. I was trying to figure out what size hole I would want to throw the bean balls (referred to as sacks for MatchShot) into. I cut out all the different size holes. I put the board 12’ away and grabbed a handful of sacks. I tossed them one by one into the various holes. This is how MatchShot was born.
I showed MatchShot to one of my friends, Alex Posada who owns a home construction business. After only playing one time he fell in love with it. He said this game MatchShot is going to be huge. Not too long after Alex became my partner. He has helped shape the current design of the MatchShot box as well as building them. This partnership is why MatchShot will be successful.
The last theme is one in which I would have never thought. Most everyone talked about a game that needed to be social, needed to be where everyone was involved. They said it is better when all the players in a game are on one side. Opponents, teammates…it didn’t matter as long as everyone was together. I received a lot of great feedback. Now it was time to get to work
My son was juggling in the house one day I asked him to throw me one of the beanballs he was using. I thought something like this would be easy to toss. I then had to think, what to toss them into or toward. So, I took a piece of wood. Two feet by two feet and grabbed a few different sized bowls. I put the bowls upside down and penciled around them. I was trying to figure out what size hole I would want to throw the bean balls (referred to as sacks for MatchShot) into. I cut out all the different size holes. I put the board 12’ away and grabbed a handful of sacks. I tossed them one by one into the various holes. This is how MatchShot was born.
I showed MatchShot to one of my friends, Alex Posada who owns a home construction business. After only playing one time he fell in love with it. He said this game MatchShot is going to be huge. Not too long after Alex became my partner. He has helped shape the current design of the MatchShot box as well as building them. This partnership is why MatchShot will be successful.
