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

Aftermath is an polemical game that immerses players in a journey of coping with a spinal cord injury stemming from an incident of gun violence

Explore the Depths of a Depression Room

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

In the Managed Heart, you must navigate your emotional state, exercise restraint, and manage their exertion.

A game about a piece of decaying but fresh memory.

Beat the insecurities by conquering your fears.

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

Wanna be my friend? is a 3-4 player tabletop game that explores the simultaneous joy and fear in making new friends.

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

Players take on the role of different workers in a corrupted hospital that is heavily involved in black market organ trades.

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.

Relive high school.

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.”

A volcano has erupted, sending lava across the path of four hikers racing to reach a single-occupant safe house at the end of the trail.

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.

ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD is a card game based on a short story of the same name by George Saunders.

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

Attempt to predict burger trends and barter with your fellow farmers to create the trendiest burger possible.

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

Plastic Vortex is based on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a mass of human-made debris caught in the swirling gyres of the North Pacific Ocean. The first animal to cross the vortex without choking on plastic wins.

One Day, Independence Day! is a four-player game that chronicles events and figures from Korea, just after the country's division into North and South.

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

It's senior year of college and graduation is quickly approaching, leaving young women with two options: get hired or get engaged.

Flow is a game about city management and water distribution.

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

Sandswitch is a game about food culture, sandwich building, and theft.

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

“Sumorals” is a four-player board game about sumo wrestling and placing bets, where the rich get richer and the fat get fatter.

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

A complex strategy game that tests your ability to build bridges (and tear them down).

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

Outcast is a game that addresses the issue of dehumanization of homeless people.

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

A game of labor, globalization, and mining set in the Iron Range of northern Minnesota.

Play as nature or corporations - control or die!

Control full or halftime operators for a directional and diplomatic twist on checkers.

Craft burgers made from buttons!

A game of self-discovery, courage, fear, faith, love, expression, and triumph.

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

Attempt to immigrate to the United States through Angel Island.

Find your iPhone after attending the Oscars.

Play as a low-income individual balancing money, health, and dependence while trying to meet your daily caloric requirements.

Prepare for the all-new All Terrain Derby!

Navigate the American school system as an Asian-American student

The lengths women go to meet social expectation

Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities

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.