Before the computer age, colorful boards — accompanied by spinners or dice and pawns or pieces — ruled game time.
It was these seemingly ancient board games that inspired Ryan Morrison and Ryan Harbinson to go into the gaming industry.
“In 2007, Ryan and I and a friend of ours wanted to develop video games,” said Morrison, now CEO of Island Officials game development studio located inside Tiki Tiki Board Games on Broad Street in Woodbury. “We had a background in retail and were basically hobbyists.”