Origin Story
How the Game got Started
Let’s start with the disaster of a game that could have been and how we got our name. To give you a little background for this story, we live in the foothills of Colorado with an abundance of wildlife just outside our front door. One afternoon, while hanging out on our back deck with a couple of our dearest friends (Love you, Kevin and Tori), someone looked over the railing and noticed a rather large pile of feces and remarked, “What the hell kind of shit is that?” Of course, I, having already analyzed the shit in my back yard, was like, “Oh, I got that shit!” For perspective, there were several drinks already on board and so maybe this was a lot funnier to all of us than it should have been but we and our game loving friends felt like an idea was being born. That night we hatched a plan to create a game called, “I Got That Shit.” And ya know what the game was going to be? Scat identification trivia! We spent more than a little time pursuing this literal shit of an idea. But sobering up always sheds a different light on so called, “great ideas.”
The idea of creating a game however, was not such a shit idea and so we started thinking through other possibilities for our game. The one we loved the most was simple… obscure and hilarious trivia. But, it was too simple. Trivia has been done a thousand times. Even with hilarious questions, it wasn’t enough. How could we make a trivia game that was more than just trivia?
Then came the idea of making it a little like “Uno,” where you could “reverse” or “skip” or maybe even play a “draw two.” So we took the questions we’d settled on thus far and played the game with “Uno” cards. That shit was definitely fun! And, aww shit… the “Back That Shit Up,” “Take Another Shit,” and “Pass That Shit” cards were born! And sticking with all things “shit” (because we are super mature, ya know), we tried a little “Presidents and Assholes” flair with the ultimate goal of the game to become, “The Shit”.
We are going to be real honest here, there were times in our creative process that we took the “shit” too far. We almost had a toilet bowl and tank in the game to keep all of this shit together. We flushed that idea.
We have spent more than two years creating, changing, scrapping and repeating to come up with a game that we hope you will all love. We want you to laugh so hard, you cry when you play our game (or maybe even shit your pants). And we want to keep on making games for years to come. So, keep on hanging out with good friends and playing games and help us meet our goal so we can do just that!
