Proto Alley

The TCTC Proto Alley is a space for game designers to showcase and playtest their latest unpublished game designs. Meet our local and not-so-local designers, play games that are in development, and learn about the game creation process.

Vancouver, BC

We craft culturally rich tabletop games that evoke nostalgia and spark curiosity about Asian culture, delivering meaningful and engaging experiences to every table.

Vancouver, BC

Off the Page Games is focused on creating unique games with amazing table presence that are based off of creator-owned comic books. We make games that pop off the page and land on your table as an innovative board game that’s dripping with theme.

New Westminster, BC

Play colourful, heavy metal themed Rebel pilots of diverse battle mechs in this cooperative, non-collectible multiplayer card game. Players fight against the tyranny of a corrupt Solar Federation, united in their struggle for liberty, equality and justice for all. Metal Justice!

Metal Justice is an in-development title by local independent game designer, Sid Gould, with a design centered around cooperation, player collaboration and the importance of ‘the combo play’. Sid is a human who exists, and not a space alien or preposterously large cat in a ‘human-suit’; swing by the booth and see for yourself!”

*note: no AI images, assets or tools are used in the creation of Metal Justice*

San Jose, CA, USA

Become a warlord and lead your faction to victory in this asymmetrical sci-fi/fantasy deck-building game for 2-4 players. To succeed, you will need to recruit new cards to grow your army and expand your influence over the war-torn world of Nevir. But beware, you will also need to defend yourself from enemy warlords and the monstrous chimera that dominate the planet’s surface. With 6 factions to explore and over a 130 unique cards to encounter, no two games will feel exactly the same!

New Westminster, BC

Deli Dash is a 2-4 player game where rival sandwich makers hustle to earn the most money by the end of the lunch rush! The game is easy to learn, competitive, but light hearted, and takes about 30-45 minutes to play.

* Coming to Kickstarter this year! *

Kelowna, BC

Bananarchy: Snatch, stash, snack, and smash all the bananas to claim your crown as Monkey King! Never wait your turn in this fast-paced, energetic, and chaotic game full of monkey mayhem! Will you Trick your “so called” friends, craftily hoard your stash, or embrace the Bananarchy and launch the Banana Revolution?

• Type of Game: Party Card Game
• Theme: Bananas, Monkeys, Mischief
• Players: 3 to 8, (team variations included)
• Age Range: 14+
• Gameplay: 20 to 40 minutes
• Estimated Kickstarter Date: May 2026

Key Features/Mechanics:

• Playing Anytime (on other players turns)
• Chain reactions of cards (Steal, Yoink, Yoink, Smash)
• Stashing to save your Bananas
• Hand drawn art by former Disney Artist

Click here for the full Media Kit

Vancouver, BC

CityScape: Vancouver is an art-object trading card game and city-building experience inspired by real Vancouver neighbourhoods, parks, businesses, and landmarks.

Players build up major locations like parks and landmarks while collecting different ground-floor businesses and cultural spaces to shape their own version of the city. The game is easy to learn, but the strategy comes from how you navigate city events, control your properties and complete theme sets.

CityScape is designed and playtested locally, with a strong focus on illustration, table presence, and celebrating the places that make Vancouver a great city.

Seattle, WA

Counterpoint is a cooperative trick-taking game about performing chamber music with 50+ scenarios based on real classical masterworks.

Renton, WA

Crossguard is a 1v1 fast paced dueling game that emulates and teaches historical fencing. Fencers commit attacks simultaneously in a Rock Paper Scissors based system to outmaneuver their opponents.

Throughout the duel, fencers will evolve their hands and attempt to predict and outwit their opponents with their swordplay and bravado!

New Westminster, BC

Arr, she still be in development.

3-8 players, 15-30 minutes, 14+ years

Cult Following is a creative storycrafting card game. Each round two or three players are selected to be cultists. All the other players are designated as recruits. Cultists choose three ideas from a hand of five cards and creatively bind them together into a ridiculous cult. Recruits draw cards with questions and choose one to ask the cultists to help them figure out which cult to join. Each cultist takes a turn to answer. The recruit then picks their favorite answer and gives that cultist their question card, which represents a new follower that has joined that cult. The first cultist to reach two followers wins the round.

Vancouver, BC

We’re a small board game company that’s all about having a blast, making memories, and sparking your imagination. Our games are handcrafted with love, and we’ve got a little something for everyone—whether you’re a board game newbie or just love a good challenge.

Vancouver, BC

We Make Games (or WMG, for friends) started with two creators, Marisa and Javier, and one belief: that games can tell EPIC STORIES and deliver UNFORGETTABLE PLAY.

We’re a small indie studio with a big imagination, crafting tabletop experiences where emotion, tension, and laughter collide around the table. Every world we create begins with a simple question: what would make this unforgettable?

Vancouver, BC

We aim to create innovative board games with striking table presence, blending captivating themes and gameplay that resonate with all types of players. Inspired by a love for indie video games, we’re passionate about transforming these creative gems into unforgettable tabletop experiences. While not every game we make is rooted in the world of indie video games, we strive to carry their spirit of ingenuity and imagination into everything we design.

Nanaimo, BC

Vikings. Goats. Chaos!

Trouble is stirring in the Faroe Islands! The Floksmen are on the run from the Danish crown, and all just for starting one teensy little rebellion… Høgni Nev, Rógvi Skel, Hálvdan Úlvsson, and Sjúrður við Kellingará flee to the island of Fugloy and must harvest enough goat cheese before winter sweeps in off the North Sea, no small feat with so many Norse Landspirits haunting the island!

Floksmen of Fugloy is a goat-centric Viking strategy game for 1-4 players with both cooperative, competitive, and solo play modes. Inspired by a rousing blend of Faroese history and Scandinavian folklore, this game will delight medium-weight gamers with its deceptively simple puzzle mechanic and its playfully dark mythological elements.

Chilliwack, BC

Mage of Rune is a tactical fantasy board-and-card battler where players command Mages, summon powerful creatures, and shape the battlefield using modular 3D hex tiles. Players collect Crystal Shards to level up abilities, maneuver soldiers across shifting terrain, and try to outwit rival Mages in fast-paced tactical combat.

Surrey, BC

Deceptively simple. Diabolically deep. Disturbingly addictive.

Migoyugo is a two-player abstract strategy game you will learn in two minutes.

Carefully place your pieces to build permanent outposts, but once an outpost forms, those pieces vanish, reshaping the board in an instant. Every move that benefits you can just as easily hand your opponent an advantage.

Don’t let the simplicity fool you – this game runs deep. Every time you think you have a handle on it, another layer opens up, and no two games play out the same way.

It plays in 10–15 minutes. It hooks you in one.

Richmond, BC

This is Dark Ages, a tactical multiplayer card game with a dark, classical aesthetic.

Players become fallen lords from history, battling to conquer city-states and be the sole victor.

This playtest features 9 unique characters and 29 cards — feel free to give it a try and share your feedback!

Burnaby, BC

We all want a better city, but planning urban utopia is full of risks, complex strategies, and diverse priorities! Be the best community planner you can be to map out a better tomorrow for your sector of Splendiunion, using markers and infrastructure pieces on the map game board. Use your competencies alone or collaborate with others, play your luck with community feedback and spin the wheel of city council favour. Meet your targets or get played by the trickster!

Prince Rupert, BC

War Canoe is a race game where you will cheer on your canoes to victory as they race around the track. You cheer by using area control, order fulfilment and deck building. Each card has its own powers and when played it will combo off adjacent cards. The end of the game will trigger when the first player goes around the board five times or you complete four rounds, the player with the most points wins!

Vancouver, BC

A buzzing blend of strategy and wordplay!

In this worker-placement, word-building game, you’ll need to “bee” clever—guide your colony to gather the perfect letters and combine them into high-scoring words that become the sweetest honey in the garden.

In this 2-4 player, dyslexic-friendly, lightweight game featuring a unique blend of worker placement and word-building mechanics, you control a colony of bees flying over a garden. Land on different flowers to collect the letters you need and build the best possible words. With a strong bee theme and fantastic table presence, this game is as engaging as it is visually charming.

Chilliwack, BC

Its the lawless years of the roaring 20’s. Big Joe Branson and his fellow thugs have taken over your city. They have taken over the banks and gained control over the general population. You are a vigilante. To win at Thieves Highway you must capture all 5 bad guys and recover 50,000.00 in stolen cash. Its Joes town now. Anything so much as looking suspicious is a jailable offence. You are guilty…..you will do time. The game is family friendly for ages 10 through adult.

New Westminster, BC

Welcome to Web of Lies, the game the elites don’t want you to play. In this game you will assemble a tangled web of conspiracies to dominate the world in one or more domains, such as finance or religion. Be wary though, because in this shadowy realm, no one ever knows as much as they think they do and powerful effects can twist the entire world in unexpected ways. (2-4 players, deck building, auction)

Ucluelet, BC

What’s On The Line? is a tense fishing derby where anglers push their luck using cards and dice to land the biggest fish. Every choice raises the stakes as you chase trophies, manage risk, and press for just one more cast. But watch out for the Bad Luck Bananas, they might just cost you the big one.

Vancouver, BC

Build your robot army and do battle! Are you building a Big Boss Megabot? Or do you prefer to command a swarm of Chainbots? Be the last one standing and claim victory!

March your game pieces on a 4×8 board and chomp on your opponents. With inspirations taken from the Chinese Dark Chess, we’ve added a lot of play variations to spice up the game.

Vancouver, BC

By Design is a role-playing, choose-your-own-adventure game that puts students inside the social media ecosystem. Players take on real-world roles (influencers, journalists, advertisers, platform designers, etc.) and see how reasonable, profit-driven choices can unintentionally cause harm to platform users. Designed for ages 12–18, it helps schools and community groups build systems thinking, digital literacy, and critical awareness of how today’s attention economy actually works.

Vancouver, BC

Discover the diversity of native bees! As an avid entomologist your goal is to observe as much as you can about the wild bees living around you. Find bees, watch as they build their nests, collect pollen from the meadow, and navigate their many enemies! The best bee-ologist wins!

Vancouver, BC

Zone of Conflict is a deterministic, pressure-based warfare strategy game. Players win by controlling territories and managing the action economy under constant pressure.

Estimated game length: 60–90 minutes.

Vancouver, BC

In this Gatsby-esque game, your group has been invited to a vacation in the Hamptons, but there’s only space for one person! Knock your frenemies out by gifting them items that cause allergic reactions. Last person standing wins!

Collect, steal, and eat mini marshmallows! Each marshmallow is worth points: would you rather eat the tasty treat now or save them for the win at the end?

Kamloops, BC

Requiem is a card game from the ancient days of the dragons, a task of strategy used by generals and commoners alike. Test your strategic skill against others, matching and waging war against your opponent’s cards in two, four, or six-player games, and explore a wealth of deeper mechanics by which to play the game.

Burnaby, BC

Cycles is a cooperative worldbuilding game. Turn your table into the writer’s room for your next TTRPG setting. Work collaboratively to weave a rich history for your world by responding to thematic story prompts.

Skip the solo prep and start your next campaign with a setting you dreamed together.

North Vancouver, BC

Fishing for Trouble is a player-versus-DM card game about desperate fishermen sailing an archipelago where the fish are valuable, the seas are hostile, and debt is more terrifying than monsters.

Players must navigate four regions of increasingly dangerous waters, manage supplies, fight mutant sea creatures with poker-style combat, and decide when to push deeper—or turn back alive.

The Dungeon Master plays the Avatar of the Archipelago, controlling curses, storms, fog, and bosses to grind the crew down over twenty days.

You don’t win by killing everything.

You win by surviving long enough, earning enough money…

and catching one fish from the mysterious waters—before the sea claims you.

Vancouver, BC

Sea Islands is a Party Pirate Card Game revolved around using a D13 sided dice. Can be played with 2-12 people. It is an all fair chance game; meaning everyone has an equal chance to win regardless of how many times you’ve played it. There is lots of social card taking and a bit of math involved when counting the score. It consists of two rounds to complete a round. There are gold cards, victory cards, island cards, shield cards all art is done by famous Canadian artist Ted Nasmith.

Richmond, BC

Imagine a stock market… but in a fantasy world. That’s Guildera.

You and three other players are moguls competing for control of fantasy guilds—listed companies that raid dungeons for profit. You don’t just trade their shares—own the most, and you get to run the guild as guildmaster as well.

The game unfolds in 30-minute sessions where you’re constantly balancing between two roles. As investors, you’re buying and selling shares—and every trade moves the price. Time the market as guild values surge and crash. As guildmasters, you’re managing the guilds you control—hiring heroes, upgrading them into specialized advanced classes, choosing which dungeons to raid and whether to pay dividends or reinvest.

Every dungeon raid changes stock prices. Succeed, and your guild’s value soars. Fail, and shareholders panic. But there’s also magical chaos: dungeons drop item treasures, and you can forge them into legendary artifacts that amplify your guild’s power for deadly raids while bending the market to your will.

It’s part economic strategy, part fantasy tactics. You’re constantly thinking: ‘Do I sell before this guild underperforms? Do I buy into that guild to steal control? Should I pay dividends to boost my cash, or hoard gold to unlock stronger heroes?’

Winner is whoever has the highest net worth—cash plus stock value—when the game ends. It’s competitive, it’s multiplayer, and every decision ripples through the entire market.

Richmond, BC

Jet Land – The Passenger Jet Game designed by Larry Davidson is a thrilling, action-packed game where each pilot must get their passengers safely to their destination. Faced with Turbulence, Proximity Alerts, Storms, and Hi-Jackings — you better fasten your seatbelt because only the best pilot will triumph in this high altitude board, dice and card game!

Vancouver, BC

Cape Management is a hero euro game! You play as a newly minted hero, trying to balance fighting crime with your obligations, stress, fatigue and regret! It’s a unique co-op resource management game with a super hero theme!

Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Playtest is a welcoming group for testing and developing new board game prototypes.

Surrey, BC

More info coming soon!

Vancouver, BC

The Wild Card is a modular card game with reality TV race mechanics.

Richmond, BC

More info coming soon!

Bellingham, WA

More info coming soon!