This coming Saturday, 20 November 2021, Brokenvase Games – a gaming company specialising in all things related to Pokémon Trading Cards, will be throwing a party to celebrate their one-year milestone. Even though Brokenvase Games was started at a time when companies all around were struggling to deal with the various pressures brought about by Covid-19, they managed to not only stay afloat, but even thrive and expand operations. Two factors attributed to the company’s success during this difficult period: #1 – Going Analog The first is its business model, which focuses on physical interaction. In a time, when everyone was heading online, founder Mervin Chiang, recognised a need for platforms where people could disconnect from the digital realm and...

For those of you who may not know, Brokenvase Games, and by extension, Pokémon Cards started out as a way for our founder Mervin Chiang and his son, Keon to bond and communicate beyond the realm of digital devices. Because, as the former business analyst puts it: “We speak the same language – Pokémon.” In 2020, after just a year into playing the game and competing in tournaments, Mervin’s business instincts started to kick in, and he started to think about how he could run a Pokémon gaming centre as a viable business. Incidentally, it was also around this time that he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which was a further driving factor for him to take...