We are passionate about our free time.
We believe in activities that challenge you, create meaningful connections, and whisk you into adventure.
We create thinky board games for 2+ players that play in 20-90 minutes, which fit into a busy day and whisk you into a tabletop adventure with your friends.
SnowBoardGames is an independent board game publishing studio from Slovenia, Europe. We launched (and fulfilled) our first game, Hike! on Kickstarter in 2022, and it was supported by 3451 backers who helped us raise almost €120.000. We strive for great art and quality components and we believe in a bigger game in a smaller box – without fancy inserts and half-empty boxes – to save your shelf space and optimise the shipping. We manufacture most of our games and game components in Europe.
SnowBoardGames was founded by Nika and Blaž. We are balancing our careers in science and engineering with running a board game publishing startup.
Nika Mlinarič Hribar is a physicist with experience in the aviation industry, working as a researcher in the field of numerical simulations. She was one of the 10 nominees for the 2019 Female Engineer of the Year Award, a national award that aims to provide role models for young girls and promote women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Blaž Hribar is a civil engineer working in a boutique design bureau. He specialises in the area at the intersection of civil engineering and architecture that focuses on the interplay of bioclimatic design and structural building physics and creates indoor spaces optimised for the user.
We are we are working in science and engineering from Monday to Thursday, and running SnowBoardGames on Fridays (or sometimes on rainy weekends, if the weather is nice on Fridays:) ). Both careers are exciting and fulfilling, and we know how easy it is to get sucked into work and forget about everything else. But free time is precious, and we passionately protect it. We are an active couple who enjoy board games, climbing, mountaineering and exploring the outdoors.
We hope to use the knowledge and connections we make to turn SnowBoardGames into a platform that will help other board game developers in bringing their games to life too. And we hope to show that balancing two careers can work, if you are intentional and efficient about it.