BOINGA 2025
Game List
Welcome to the BOINGA Indie Board Game Showcase, a celebration of local game designers! Below is a list of all the games being demoed here today as well as some links for folks you are interested in learning more about.
Bot Buster - (Party game, 3-10 players) - A Humans vs AI, prompt answering game about trying to fool your friends into thinking you're an AI chatbot The first card game AI can play! To learn more and join the Kickstarter mailing list, click here! (Designed by Jacob Ohlson & Will Wennik)
Cheesy Cheese - (Party game, card game, 6 players) - Cheesy Cheese expands the deliciously competitive card game Toasty Toasts to up to 6 players with new toppings, fresh game mechanics, and more action cards. Pre-save Cheesy Cheese on Kickstarter here! (Coco Chen)
Cloven Playing Tiles - (Puzzle game, racing game, 2-4 players) - Venture into the world of Cloven Playing Tiles, as we debut 2 completely different games within one abstract playground that fits on a coffee table! (Anthony Fanticola)
DUAT- (Abstract strategy) - A game of careful decisions and tight maneuvering. Use your movements wisely to fend off your opponents attacks and push them over the edge! (Unphazed Games)
Fight Sequence - (Dueling card game, 2 or 4 players) - Fight Sequence is the head-to-head card game of psychics THINKING about fighting! Play sequences of actions that resolve in reverse order, and use your psychic powers to edit the timelines in your favor before they resolve! Get notified when Fight Sequence launches on Kickstarter later this year: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiesabriel/fight-sequence (Triple Rainbow Games)
Story GROUP - (Slightly MadLibs-ish, 3-8 players) - Creative writing is way more fun… together. (Gene Mackles)
The Game of You - (Party / Casual, 4+ players) - The Game of You is all about…well, you! Give yourself a quirky NICKNAME like "Katie The Hammer" or "Captain Chris" to kick off each round in a twisted journey of self-discovery. (Cheerup Games)
Hang Out to Dry- (Set Collection, 2-5 players) A fun set collection card game in which players take turns picking through a pile of laundry in search of their perfect outfit (Unphazed Games)
Hedged In - (Spatial puzzle, 2 players) - Hedged In is a pocket-sized pen and paper wizard's duel of passive-aggressive gardening. Draw lines of hedges to make your rival's stroll through your shared garden slightly more obnoxious than your own! Check out the free demo and buy it online here: (Triple Rainbow Games, Always Awake Games)
Hexopolis - (Abstract strategy, 2 players) - Build walls. Find the right path. Expand your territory. Stack towers and connect bridges in Hexopolis, a 2-player competitive abstract strategy game that's easy to learn and difficult to master! Copies are available at https://www.hexopolis.us/ (Andrew Coeytaux)
How To Do Anything - (Party / Casual, 4+ players) - Welcome to your first day working for HowToDoAnything.biz. You're gonna help us make a terrible website. (Cheerup Games)
I Smell a Rat - (Party game, 2-6 players) - A social deduction game about Mobster. Players will play as Mobsters who owe money and have to take on illegal jobs to pay off their debts. However, there is a Rat amongst the group trying to sabotage their organization. (Henry Seraphim)
Lem-Tori - (Abstract strategy, 2-4 players) - With up to 4, players use the elements of Leaf, Ember, and Dew to trump opponents, complete patterns, and be victorious. (Jonathan Ellis)
Master Trainer - (Adventure, card game, 1-6 players) - A revamp of the 90's Master Trainer board game. It is a Pokémon battling game that ends in the Pokémon League tournament. Catch the perfect team, attached the best items, and battle it out to be number 1! (John Bucciarelli)
Mazes - (Old School RPG, 3-5 players) - The Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying emulates the feel of classic sword & sorcery dungeon crawlers from the 70s and 80s, but built on a blazingly fast, elegant rules system. (9th Level Games)
MILLRAT Pack! - (Party game, risk-taking, 4-8 players) - MILLRAT Pack! isn't just a collection of 5 unique games, it's a collage of MILLRAT Studio's best and freshest ideas! Each game is family friendly but offers the right amount of challenge for casual & seasoned gamers. Play our games on the go, outside, before a DnD sesh, or use it as a doorstop; we don’t mind! MILLRAT Pack! is meant to be your board game companion whenever you want to squeeze in a little fun! Check out our Kickstarter here! (Millrat Studio)
Mission to Planet Hexx - (Card game, map-building, 2-4 players) - It is a medium weight, retro-style, space adventure, board-and-card-game-in-one, for 2-4 players, ages ten and up! (James Fitzpatrick)
Muddled Market - (Family game, 2-5 players) - Make potions on a budget by outbidding the other witches on the right ingredients. (Aaron Cooper)
Olympian Fifteen - (Social Deduction, 3-8 players) - The gods are at it again. Spy, scour, and assassinate your way to the top in this truth-friendly social deduction game. (Duncan Davis)
Pirates of the High Teas - (Set collection, whimsical, 2-4 players) - A whimsical game of piracy and pastries! Back now on Kickstarter! (Emily Vincent)
Rendezvous - (Abstract strategy, 2 players) - Construct a network of pieces and navigate an ever-changing battlefield to unite a pair of distant relics in Rendezvous, a snappy two player strategy game! (Keegan Franck)
Spiral - (Party Game, social deduction, 3-7 players) - Answer a question, question other's answers, then point someone out! (Jaela Horton)
Starline Hill - (Abstract strategy, 2 players) - Starline Hill is an easy-to-learn strategy game for 2 players about making constellations in the night sky, guaranteed to make you think more than you might expect! (Michael Burrowes)
Ultimate Pro - (Light strategy, 2 players) - Ultimate Pro brings the strategy and excitement of the sport of Ultimate Frisbee to your gaming table. To learn more, check out: www.ultimateprogame.com (Steve Gordon & Dave Pitcher)
Warrior Kittens - (Co-op, puzzle battler, 1-8 players) - Train fierce Kittens, battle the critters of the forest, grow in power, and defeat dragons in this co-op, legacy game for 1-8 players! Check out our Kickstarter here! (Duncan Davis)
The other event not mentioned here is... eating! There will be a bunch of delicious food options all around you throughout the day. We encourage you to grab some food at one of the many wonderful High-Street-Place establishments while you're there.
Doors open on Saturday at 10am, feel free to join us at any point throughout the day. Looking forward to having you and game on!