Engineering tabletop adventures and the software tools to make them possible.

Hi, I’m Bill Ward and Cardboard Reveries is my tabletop game design studio. I design original hobby board games, prototype them, and playtest them, with an eye to pitching them to publishers when they’re ready.

You can often find me at in-person playtest events in the San Francisco Bay Area organized by the Golden Gate Gamemakers, especially in Berkeley; at local gaming conventions in the protospiel room; and at online events such as Protospiel Online.

Below: games currently in active development. You can see the full design catalog in Designs, and find out about the build pipeline at Pipeline; see About to learn more about me.

Spelling Bees

Pitch Ready

Build the hive, letter by letter.

1–6p · 60–120min · Age 10+

Wildstar

Pitch Ready

Assemble your rockets and Blast Off!

2–6p · 25–40min · Age 8+

Asteroid Miners

Playtesting

Mine the ore, upgrade your Control Panel, and fulfill your orders as the asteroid disintegrates around you.

2–5p · 30–45min · Age 10+

Meeple Run

Playtesting

Build the city. Control the routes. Run the meeples.

2–4p · 40–60min · Age 10+

Untitled Dice Game

Playtesting

Roll & Draft & Mitigate & Write

1–6p · 20–30min · Age 10+

See the full design catalog →