Plakks is the startup founded in Barcelona that is launching its football game to encourage face-to-face interaction so the kids can leave the screens and have fun playing in groups. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise 20.000$ in 30 days. The campaign started on 10th December and finishes on 10th January 2019.
A study by Canadian researchers has discovered a direct connection between the use of devices such as tablets, phones, computers or television and the intelligence of children. The final conclusions published in ‘The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health’, suggest that more than two hours a day of recreational time with screens implies a lower cognitive development in children.
“We realized that today’s entertainment is mainly based on screens. The face-to-face interaction, the laughter with your friends, the family time is being lost “say Haritz Múgica and Jordi Domínguez, two young entrepreneurs who want the use of tablets and mobiles to be compatible with board games like Plakks and reduce in 90 hours a year the time people spend in front of the screens.
The game which the startup is working is the simulation of a football field made with a wooden board giving the feeling that you are playing a football game at home. It is a kind of football game that is played with the fingers with the difference that when an opponent scores a goal eliminates a player from the opposing team, so who gets to eliminate all players of the opposing team wins. Made with basic elements such as wood and fabric layer, it is an easy game to transport for playing anywhere.
A game that has already sold its first prototypes but have decided to launch its first fundraising campaign through the creative Kickstarter platform to include improvements and become the leaders in sport board game market.
People who collaborate in the Kickstarter campaign will be able to get the Plakks game with an important discounts like 50% OFF. Also if you buy it now you will be the first to have the new Plakks and you will be supporting it to reach the goal and launch this game and others in the future.
If the campaign reaches its goal, the founders will continue to develop new games that friendship, competitiveness, entertainment and interaction will be the mission of the startup. They started in a modest garage building with their own hands the first prototype to validate the product and now they are trying to launch a game to change time with screens for time with your people.
