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planning

Let your creative juices flow and use this wizard to create your very own board game in just a few steps. To help organize, you should create a folder with the photos you want to include in your game. You will select:

  • A game title and colors
  • A game image (optional) which should be sized to 3" x 1.5" or 288px x 144px **
  • A number of photos - 6-10 is a good range - to scatter throughout the board. These should all be sized to .9" x .9" or 86px x 86px **
  • You can optionally create cards which can be drawn during game play. For example, you can create a card that says, "We got a new dog," and you can assign number of spaces to move if that card is drawn. In this example, perhaps 3 spaces ahead. Again, it is not required to create the cards, but the next page of this wizard will give you the option.

** Photos are best stored in .png format. No worries if the image sizes are not exact because we programmed the system to resize the photos. You should try to make the sizes close though so they do not look distorted.

game play

To play the game, you will need to print your board and cards if you opted to use them, and you will also need a die (singular for dice). You will also need game pieces or tokens for each player which could be something like a penny or bingo chip or whatever you would like. It just needs to be small enough to fit in the block. You play the game by taking turns rolling the die and moving that number of spaces. If you land on a draw space, you pick a card and move that number of spaces on the card. Win the game by being the first to get to the end of the board. Since it is your game, you get to set the rules. For example, you could have a rule that if someone lands on another player, that player goes to start. It is whatever you want it to be.

You can decorate your game board with pictures on any of the playing spaces. You also choose draw spaces. A space may not contain both draw and picture. We recommend that you have at least 4 draw spaces if you use the card option.

select a board style to get started