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The theme of Infra 2016, held in Helsinki in March, was the future of infrastructure management.\u00a0 One of the presentations that caught my eye was about INFRA<\/strong> \u2013 a new video game. I had the opportunity to interview Oskari Samiola<\/strong>, the CEO of Loiste Interactive<\/a><\/strong>, the game\u2019s developer.<\/p>\n How did you become interested in infrastructure?<\/strong><\/p>\n Even as a kid, I was interested in systems: how societies work, how logistics function, where a city gets its water, and so on. In elementary school, my favorite subject was history, especially Roman history and how Romans used aqueducts. My interest in systems has just kept on growing ever since.<\/p>\n At some point your interest materialized into a game. What triggered you to start developing a game on infrastructure?<\/strong><\/p>\n In summer 2011 I saw a TV documentary called The Crumbling of America. The show warned of the total collapse of the built infrastructure in the USA due to negligence. I figured it could be a great theme for a mod (video game modification) or a game. I contacted my game-developing friends. We started off right away, and gradually the project began to snowball.<\/p>\n When did you realize that is could become a commercial product?<\/strong><\/p>\n I had that in mind from the get-go. In 2013, we submitted the game to the Steam Greenlight<\/a> program and got the right to publish it on Steam. That was when we realized that this would become a commercial product. Immediately, we founded our company, Loiste Interactive, and started raising money.<\/p>\n How did you succeed in fundraising?<\/strong><\/p>\n We got most of the money from our families and friends, and a few angel investors joined in.<\/p>\n When did you release the game?<\/strong><\/p>\n