At Utrecht GameLab, we focus on accessible and, for the most part, freely or cheaply available tools that do not require specialized technical knowledge or skills.

Tabletop Simulator

Tabletop Simulator is a physics-based and networked tool to play and (co-)design analogue games by creating or repurposing game assets and scripting in-game behavior.

Board Game Prototyping Material

For board game prototyping, we use a growing assortment of dice, tokens, LEGO pieces and reusable materials from commercial board games.

NanDECK

NanDECK is a free and easily accessible tool to create cards or other boardgame materials like tiles or tokens via a markup/scripting language similar to HTML.

Other Tools

• https://www.gbstudio.dev/
• Twine
• Bitsy
• https://www.flickgame.org/
• Idle Game Maker