Proto-Alley

Michael Taborek

2-6 Players (30 min – 45 min)

Step into the realm of Lucardia, where kingdoms rise and fall in an epic battle for dominance! In this thrilling board game adventure for 2 to 4 players, you’ll experience the perfect blend of kingdom and deck-building strategy, infused with the intensity of a traditional Trading Card Game.

Harness your skills in hand and resource management, Through cunning dice rolling mechanics and strategic resource trades, each player constructs their kingdom one card at a time, acquiring buildings, terrains, heroes, spells, and more.

Victory points await the master strategist.

With each card in your kingdom representing potential triumph, the race to fill all 12 field locations is on. And when the final piece falls into place, one more rotation seals the fate of Lucardia. Victory points are tallied, and a new ruler emerges victorious, will you rise to the challenge and claim the throne, or will you fall to the cunning maneuvers of your rivals?

Welcome to Lucardia – where every move shapes your destiny!

Lion Dance

Lion Dance is a competitive and strategic game for 1-4 players that combines grid movement, set collection, and push-your-luck mechanics in a 30-60 minute experience. Inspired by the traditional Asian dance where performers mimic a lion’s movements to bring good luck, players will compete to deliver the best dance routine. Collect valuable items, navigate the pillars, and reach the lettuce to complete your performance. But be careful—one wrong move could send you tumbling, losing your hard-earned items. Who will rise to the top and deliver the ultimate Lion Dance performance?

PopCats Fights

PopCats Fighter is a 1v1 card game inspired by retro arcade fighting games! Choose your cat champion and get into the ring!

Fú: Red Packets

A medium-weight game of secretly filling traditional red packets to bid for festive snacks on Chinese New Year. Scheme to offer the tastiest snacks and attract the highest bids!

Oolicon City

My first game I’d called Oolicon City, it is an area control area majority cards based war game that is also a race for points. As well as a trick taking spacial puzzle with poker hands for scoring.

High Rollers Guild

Bring your adventurers’ guild the most prestige by rolling dice and competing dangerous quests!

Apocalypse Theatre

In a dystopian world not so dissimilar to ours, help spirits find closure by restaging past events.

game 1: You are a pirate who has acquired cursed treasure which you need to give away as fast as possible. Lucky for you you’re on a ship with many other crewmates who should be happy to receive your ‘gifts!’ Compete with other players to force your treasure into their hands. Feel confident that you’re holding the least amount of cursed treasure? Place a bet and take the risk but be wary. It might look like your crewmate has a lot of treasure but they might just be holding a bunch of empty chests.

game 2: Take control of one of 4 fantasy factions and compete for victory points in a modularly built world all while building alliances, conducting politics, and completing quests. Will you be the one to reform the Republican Empire or lead the world into a new era?

Litera-Seas

In Litera-Seas, players take command of their own pirate ships, moving between ports to drop books off at floating libraries so that the mermaids will keep the sea calm. Drop off enough books to force your opponent to sink their own libraries and sail off into the sunset!

Players take turns simultaneously, moving 1 square (or Library) at a time, and selecting their books to play so that they can bring their own libraries to the brink of sinking, trying to force the other player to play the last books to take them down.

With hand-drawn art and quick rounds, this game encourages trying different strategies to defeat your opponent, or as one playtester has said, “The goal isn’t to win; the goal is to not lose.”

Children of Morta

The Board Game is a cooperative adventure game with a unique shared bag-building mechanism, permanent character development, an emphasis on family growth, simultaneous turns, and interconnected cooperation. In this game, you take on the role of a member of the Bergson family as they try to stop the spreading corruption of evil in their beloved land of Rea. Defeat monsters and bosses to unlock upgrades for your hero, making them stronger and more prepared for what comes next.

Plunder and Peril

Plunder and Peril is a 30 min game of social deception for 4-8 players. Set sail with a crew of pirates to plunder the seas for mutual gain—or betray your crew and take the treasure for yourself.

Unlike other social deception games where you get a role at random, Plunder and Peril lets you choose your side before each voyage.

Vektor Game

2 players, 5-10 minutes

Vektor Game is a fast-paced, two-player abstract strategy board game that offers a fresh and dynamic alternative to chess. Played on an 11×11 chess-like grid, players strategically maneuver three types of game pieces—one-unit, two-unit, and three-unit vectors, moved either orthogonally or diagonally. The rules are simple, logical, and consistent, making it easy to learn but challenging to master.

Designed for the modern (online) player, Vektor Game boasts a quick playing time of just 5-10 minutes per match, with an average of only 10 moves per player per game. It’s the perfect choice for a lunch break battle or a quick game on a subway ride. Unlike many other games, every match concludes with a definitive winner—no draws, so it is suitable for being played in a tournament format, ensuring high engagement and competitive tension.

Dubbed “SkyTrain Chess,” Vektor Game combines the strategic depth of traditional abstract strategy board games with the fast-paced excitement of contemporary play. Whether you’re looking for a casual game or a tournament-worthy challenge, Vektor Game delivers a thrilling experience in record time.

This is an exploration and engine-building game, the objective is to move across the island chain collecting hidden island tokens and infamy. Collect treasures and raid merchant ships all while avoiding capture and destruction on the high seas.

Spell Heist

In Spell Heist you play a group of apprentice wizards who have stumbled upon a portal to the lost Library of Ogg. Your goal is to get in, obtain as many of the library’s well guarded secrets as you can, and get out. Will you be brave (or stupid) enough to obtain the ultimate treasure, the MacGuffinomicon?!

Overgrown

In Overgrown, players attempt to reclaim an abandoned city with new growth and wildlife, while competing for the resources needed to do so.

Inspired by tile-combination & match-3 games, Overgrown offers a fun twist on fighting the tide of tiles with clever placement and combination: each player determines the tiles their opponents receive from where they place their own tiles!

Can you force your opponents to clog up their board while still creating a sustainable ecosystem for yourself?

Cantina

As rival Cantina owners, you’ll each strive to attract the town’s finest citizens to your establishments. But be warned—the Cantina business is rougher than a cobb. Your rivals will be looking to outmaneuver you, sending Bandits and Gunslingers to stir up trouble and tarnish your good name.

Cantina is an interactive player vs player game reaching its thrilling conclusion when a Cantina is overrun by Bandits. At that moment, lawmen shut down all Cantina’s except the winning Cantina with the fewest Bandits inside.

Crystal Factions

Crystal Factions is a card battle game for 1-4 players with pre-made decks to get you right into the action. You play as one of the Factions of space-faring civilizations who rely on energy crystals as a power source and a currency. The battle takes place on a mineral rich planet where you and you opponents all try and mine the most crystals or just destroy your enemies and claim the planet for yourselves.

Spaceport Scoundrels

A spaceport is on the eve of an invasion from powerful outside forces as lowly scoundrels desperately try to gain enough power to escape the coming disruption and destruction. Spaceport Scoundrels is a tableau builder where players bid on heists and tug-of-war over balance tracks in order to sway the outcomes of the major events of the coming invasion and crackdown. Can you gain enough money to buy passage off the doomed planet, or can you weasel your way into a position of power within one of the warring factions?

Tis Mutiny! A Pirate Adventure of Cutthroat Co-operation.

Tis Mutiny is a semi-cooperative game where some, none, or all players can win. Will you be content to toil along as a lowly swab, or will you bide your time for the perfect opportunity…for Mutiny!

Sapling Scramble

Sapling Scramble is a fast-paced, set-collecting card game for 2-5 players that takes 3 minutes to learn and 10 minutes to play. Make deals or deceive your opponents, steal their cards, and collect ingredients from the forest floor as you race to be the first to brew 3 potions!

Obduron

OBDURON is a game of strategy not unlike chess but with multiplayer options. The OBDURON MULTUS game deck allows for 2, 3, 4 and 6 players to match whit and cunning to best all opponents.

With two elevations modulating piece movement, hexagonal spaces and moving two pieces per turn, OBDURON offers a rewarding play experience in a tabletop strategy game.

Planned for future release within the OBDURON universe are modules and expansion packs, theme packs, and custom sets to personalize a players experience.

Dodeca – A Timeless Game of Limitless Possibilities

Dodeca is a classic abstract strategy game from the world of sacred geometry, where each move requires creative problem-solving and strategic foresight.

The concept is simple: create a straight line of 8 uninterrupted pieces in your colour. But caught between your opponent’s pieces, your positions flip to theirs.

In a game where interconnection underlies every move, each choice can set off a chain reaction with the possibility of flipping the whole board.

It takes just minutes to learn, but a whole, whole lot longer to master.  

It’s your time to launch your criminal career by creating the ultimate heist!- the only catch, you never know what your target is, who your accomplice is, what gear you have or how you’ll make the getaway. This quick-witted storytelling game will have you and your criminal cohorts competing to imagine the most elaborate heist possible. Select your component cards, devise your heist, and be prepared to defend its merits to make it rich! BUT WAIT! Watch out for those Monkey Wrench Cards they can throw a wrench into your plan!

A perfect party game for 3-8 players. The game is played in rounds and includes lots of variations to challenge players in new and hilarious ways! 

Bowerbirds

The eclectic auction game of 2025: Bowerbirds is a quirky, fast-paced game featuring three different types of auctions where players compete in a quest to collect colourful trinkets for their nests

Sky Bloom is a euro style tableau building board game where players try to build the most beautiful rooptop garden possible.