Bloom and Beware: Strategize to Safeguard Your Flowers in this Grid-Based Garden Game!

Explore the Depths of a Depression Room

First Youth is a conversational board game deeply influenced by life and relationships.

Shep, Po, Dobie, Collie, and the last-minute roommate Hedgar the hedgehog-human must live civilly until the lease is up!

A game about a piece of decaying but fresh memory.

This is a game about how drinking does not solve any problems and so you try to sober up to win.

A collection of tabletop strategy games created for DESMA 157 Game Design Workshop in Spring 2021.

A Compendium of Virtual Tabletop Roleplaying Games created for the DESMA 157 Game Design Workshop in Fall 2020 at UCLA.

Try to finish your assignment 24 hours before it is due!

In Silicon Valley, you play as a worker trying to climb up the positions to become a CEO at startup companies.

trace is a board game about virtual identity theft.

Mleko a Miód is an RPG based on Jewish and Central/Eastern European folklore and late 19th century Jewish life that uses magic as a key element.

A game about groups and conflict.

You are one of the last survivors of humanity. The remaining country, AK Corp., has sent you and other citizens as adventurers on a mission to retrieve what is known as “technology.”

Battle with Jet Engine chicken, Hypnotist chicken, Magnet chicken, and more.

Loom is a game in which the act of weaving and buying are juxtaposed in order to explore the economic and social tensions found between consuming and producing clothing in a capitalist economy.

Finding the correct type of birth control for you.

Two would-be sumos race to gain the most weight.

A grave mistake has happened at the racetrack - the expected-to-win horse somehow ended up in the meat grinder!

南京！is a game in which the players attempt to deduce one another’s identities against the backdrop of Nanking in 1937.

Tubes simulates the unbalanced nature of the Internet by modeling its physical infrastructure.

45 is a 1 vs. 1 board game that uses lasers and mirrors.

Make America Great Again is an asymmetrical polemical board game based on Donald Trump’s views on immigration

Shit happens, so we might as well help each other. Meet you at the summit. This is the pursuit.

As Cupertino rapidly becomes known as “the city where Apple is”, longtime residents must work together to stay in the city they call home.

Put your culinary skills to the test and battle sandwiches in a tournament-style miniature monster truck rally

Pope Burn is a game about the representation and interpretation of politics through print media in 17th Century England.

“Arrangement” simulates matchmaking by asking potential partners to draw identical drawings through verbal guidance alone.

In “Will I Get Measles At Disneyland?”, you play as a determined mom guiding her children through a measles-infested theme park.

Locals Only! is a game about surf localism and catching sweet waves.

A redesign of chess that takes place on a mutinous ship.

Players learn what it feels like to be a big fish in a small pond - and vice versa.

A multi-media puzzle game to uncover the plot for a New World Order.

Installation of regional redesigned chess variants, with new game pieces developed that sculpturally convey their rules of movement and relative power on the board.

Balance love and weight as you try to raise your children in the modern world.

Play as nature or corporations - control or die!

Create or destroy words to control the city of Bolinas!

Craft burgers made from buttons!

A trading card game about the inherent shallow nature of popular dance music.

Reconstruct your self identity as a non-native U.S. citizen.

Puff follows the journey of different kinds of smokers as they trade the items and tools necessary to feed their cigarette habits.

Find your iPhone after attending the Oscars.

This is a game about meat and the ever-conflicting information regarding whether or not humans should be eating animals.

Prepare for the all-new All Terrain Derby!

A Zero Sum game of physical and mental acuity

The lengths women go to meet social expectation

Pacwars is a four player, team-based board game based on Chess and Pacman.

TLTI is a board game designed to describe and address socio-political problems of post-revolution Iran.

A GAME OF FAITH, MONEY, AND POWER.

The oldest player takes the weapons bag and gently scatters the contents over the board.

The tower was built in such a way that it is extremely dangerous for more than three intruders to ascend the tower.

You are a sad, sad commuter in the city of LA, trying to get to work on a Monday (or Tuesday, or Wednesday...whatever.)

Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities

This 2-vs-1 game takes players through various storylines, culminating in a battle between two ghosts and their murderer.

A two-player game of things getting awkward fast.

Strategize your job, risks, and alliances in order to escape your humble surroundings and make it to the good life.

En Gore is a two player turn-based strategy game testing speed and dexterity using the concepts of foil fencing.

A four player competitive game. Players controls both above-ground humans and below-ground rabbits to inflict insanity on the other players.

A 2 to 4 player competitive game. Players must beat their opponents to the center of the board by managing both their health and morality levels.