Classic board games such as Ludo and Snakes and Ladders generally feature simple ‘roll dice, move piece, perform action’ game mechanics. They follow a rigid format with little player interaction, minimal decision-making, and too often no need for any human involvement at all. Relaxing as these games can be, I feel they have given tabletop […..]
Analog Games aren’t just fun. They also often come in interesting boxes featuring beautiful artwork. It’s no surprise that a lot of us love to proudly showcase our board game collection on a shelf. In this series, every week one of our fellow board game enthusiasts will exhibit their board game shelves and tell us […..]
Product designer Jang Won from the Republic of Korea created Drop Cat, a three-dimensional guessing game featuring brightly colored climbing cats. For his game, Jang Won was inspired by the ease with which cats climb fences. His ultimate goal was to design an accessible guessing game for all ages. In Drop Cat, players try to […..]
Hello there. I am Hilal Coşkun and I’m a designer from Turkey. For a design competition with the theme ‘play’ I designed Kübe, an abstract game that you can exhibit on your wall after playing. The design brief inspired me to dive into the world of non-digital games. I did a lot of research on […..]
Analog Games aren’t just fun. They also often come in interesting boxes featuring beautiful artwork. It’s no surprise that a lot of us love to proudly showcase our board game collection on a shelf. In this series, every week one of our fellow board game enthusiasts will exhibit their board game shelves and tell us […..]
My name is Martin Looij and I’m a board game designer from the Netherlands. I love scuba diving, traveling and board gaming (in that order). From July 2014 until May 2015, I was traveling through North, Central and South-America. And while hanging in an overland truck for up to 14 hours a day, I started […..]
I’m Chuck Stover, a native of Michigan and a graduate of Michigan State University with a BFA in sculpture and graphic design. Vasty Wilds is a card-based board game for 2-4 players aged 12+. Each game lasts 30-50 minutes. Each player controls a forest creature skittering after objectives on an ever-expanding board. Each card a […..]