It all began in May 2022…

…when we launched our first-ever conversational card game. But what happened to get us to launch day?!

That's the best part of the story!

A pitch lost to a dead laptop...

A Monday morning meeting with Everythink LLC for a potential partnership...

A potential contact for a grant...

*cue the victory dancing

A BIG FAT 'YES!' from Friedrich Naumann Foundation For Freedom - Lebanon & Syria on a grant to produce 'L3aba Siyese' (Arabic for 'Play Politics').

Pausing to cheer everyone who then thought a game about politics made no sense whatsoever... 😂 it was in a way the proof we needed at the time!

A production ‘GO AHEAD'...

Fast-forward through meetings, production issues, almost disasters, chaos and loads of coffee...

There on an Instagram page, we announced the official launch of 'L3aba Siyese' a card game that ignites and encourages difficult conversations related to politics in Lebanon.

Eight months later?! We were SOLD OUT

Commence Games wouldn't exist if it weren't for 'L3aba Siyese'. And there is so much more where that came from!