Boardzilla

Boardzilla is a place for playing and developing board games all within your browser. Boardzilla makes it easy to express the game rules and provides players with a simple interface to the choices available to them.

For publishers

With Boardzilla you can have your game to market in weeks, not months. Because it is entirely web based, your ability to get feedback from players is effortless, users only needing a web browser to participate in testing.

We also simplify the hosting of your game by offering a platform to upload, test, collect feedback and play your game. All feedback is collected within the game, so players can submit their feedback and keep on playing.

Meanwhile, don't worry about the technical aspects such as hosting, payments and match making. We'll take care of that for you.

For players

Either play our free-to-play games or purchase access to your favorite games for a simple one-time price. After that, invite your friends to play with you or find new people to play with.

Games can be played at your own pace or in real time. If you choose to play a game over days, get notified when it's your turn. Because it's web based, you can then take your turn from your phone or your desktop, use whatever you have on hand.

For developers & game inventors

We provide a framework for quickly and easily building beautiful digital board games. We make it easy to outline your rules in a powerful and descriptive API, but take care of all the details on synchronizing player states and persisting the game state.

We offer local development tools, so you can use your own preferred development environment to perfect your game. And because development is entirely browser-based, you can use whatever tools and debuggers you're familiar with from web development to make your game great.

In terms of polish, we offer tooling to make it easy to add smooth animations and dark mode.

Our framework is also entirely open-source and written in Typescript, so easily get guidance from your favorite IDE or inspect the code to understand what's going on.