Board Game Design Contest: Print & Play 2023

          “Book on Board” - Transform Your Beloved Books into the Perfect Board Games

          When stories on paper pages are turned into board games! How thrilling will these battlefields be? Download to discover!

          The Board Game Design Contest by TK Park offers both "novice" and "professional" board game designers the opportunity to unleash their creativity. These designers have turned cherished stories from their favorite books into thrilling, easy-to-play board games that are portable and can be enjoyed anywhere, anytime.

          For 2023, we have six fantastic games from talented game designers, each with unique features and fun experiences, waiting for you to discover a new way of learning!

          Don't wait! Download, print, and play now!

        “Board games by novice designers”

        Secret Recipe: Don’t Tell Anyone

          This game is inspired by the comic "Pome." It tells the story of a girl who loves cooking, but her family is cursed so that no matter what she cooks, it doesn’t taste good. To break the curse, she must collect all the recipes to finally cook delicious food again.

          In this game, players take on the role of culinary wizards trying to collect recipes in their own book. They must guess the ingredients to cook dishes from their rivals' menus. The first player to collect three recipes wins.

        OFFICE IDIOTS

          “Why is everyone acting like idiots?” This game is inspired by the book "Surrounded by Idiots." In your office, personalities are divided into four colors: Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. Each personality has its own strengths and quirks. 

         You will learn how to think and deal with each personality type in the context of working together to ensure harmony in the workplace.

        Mystic Beyonder

          This game is inspired by the Chinese fantasy novel "Lord of the Mysteries" by Cuttlefish that Loves Diving, translated into Thai as "ราชันเร้นลับ" by Ink Stone_Fantasy. 

          Zhou Mingrui, a young man from the present world, performs a destiny-altering ritual and finds himself in the body of Klein Moretti, who had committed suicide due to mysterious forces in a world resembling the Victorian era, a time of steam engines and a red moon in the sky. Discovering that he’s not the only one who has traveled between worlds, he finds a valuable diary written in Chinese by a former emperor of this world from a hundred years ago. Zhou decides to uncover the information in the diary, investigate the cause of the original Klein's death, and find a way back to his world, all while navigating the dangerous supernatural world of the mystics.

          In this game, players take on the roles of various mystics striving to ascend in rank and battle madness, aiming to become the most powerful mystic by concocting potions and collecting magical artifacts.

        “Board games by professional designers”

        MAN

          A board game inspired by the short story "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov. This abstract puzzle game requires players to work together to help Al, the protagonist, reach his goal of becoming human. However, the closer Al gets to becoming human, the more challenging it becomes to reach the goal. Will Al ultimately be recognized as human?

        Einstein’s Dreams RPG

          A cooperative, time-based tabletop role-playing game inspired by the novel "Einstein’s Dreams" by Alan Lightman. 

          This sci-fi drama board game, played in a single session (one-shot), centers around the theme of ‘time.’ The main character is the 26-year-old Albert Einstein. Players assume the roles of friends and acquaintances whom Einstein trusts. Einstein has disappeared into a parallel world that appears in his dreams, and his friends are the only hope of bringing him back. Players must search for Einstein number 11 in a world where the nature of time differs from our own.

        Hoobitat

          This game is inspired by the “The House with 100 Stories” series by Toshio Iwai. 

          Hoobitat is a light strategy game where players act as explorers venturing into a 50-story tower inhabited by various animals. Each floor has different animals that rank their homes as their favorite habitats. The explorers will visit and form bonds with the animals living in the tower.