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Custom board and card game manufacturing, showcasing high- quality production by a leading game manufacturer.

Board game manufacturing at the scale you need.

Choose from a huge variety of top-quality component styles, materials, and finishes, both standard and custom - if you need it, we can create it.

Our manufacturing process

When you need more than 1000 copies of your game, mass manufacturing is the ideal solution. With higher quality and greater flexibility than print-on-demand, this is the most cost effective way to produce large quantities of a game.

Minimum order quantity displayed for custom board game production, starting from 1,000 units.

Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) of 1,000 units.

Artwork file analysis process in action, ensuring optimal print results in board game manufacturing.

Artwork file analysis to ensure your artwork prints as it should

Variety of customisable components in different materials and finishes, offered by a leading custom game manufacturer.

Customisable components in material, dimension, and finish.

Dedicated project manager overseeing the production and delivery of your custom board game.

Dedicated project manager to oversee the production and delivery of your game.

Our qualifications

The team at Launch Tabletop understands the challenges and complexities of modern board game design. We are a group of tabletop industry veterans who have decades of shared experience across mass production, game design and development, publishing, and crowdfunding. 

Launch Tabletop was co-founded by Nick Chan of Ninox Games, a beloved manufacturer for many complex and demanding Kickstarter and retail board game projects. The same production team and facility that manage your mass production projects also operate Ninox Games.

Ninox Games

Ninox Games is an established tabletop game manufacturer. Founded in 2014, Ninox helps customers around the world to create high quality board and card games for all ages. Known for bringing beautiful and successful Kickstarter projects to life, Ninox is the manufacturer behind games including Wonderland’s War, Tang Garden, Hand of Fate: Ordeals and so many more.

Launch Tabletop, experts in custom board game manufacturing and design, co-founded by Nick Chan of Ninox Games
Ninox Games, a respected manufacturer that makes custom card and board games, known for making successful games on Kickstarter.

The Launch Tabletop manufacturing process

Whether you are new to the industry or operate a large publishing company, we approach your project with the same care and attention. For each project, we:

  • Assign a project manager to guide you from concept to final product
  • Collaborate on creative solutions for production challenges
  • Provide technical advice on ways to improve your product
  • Analyse your artwork to ensure it prints as it should
  • Produce high quality prints and components at scale
  • Offer highly competitive production lead times
  • Provide logistics and product safety testing support

Frequently asked questions

As the manufacturer producing your custom board game, we know your ideas might change as the project moves ahead. Whether you can change your order after you've submitted it depends on how far along your game is in the manufacturing process. If we're still in the planning stages or haven't started making your game yet, it's often possible to make changes. But once we've started production, it might be too late to change things because of how specific the game-making process is. If you want to change something, it's best to talk to your project manager. They can give you the best advice based on where we are in the process of making your game.

Absolutely! Before we begin production, we make a sample of your game and send it to you. This is called the "pre-production copy" or PPC for short, and it's made with the same materials and techniques we'll use in the final product. Once you receive this copy, it's important to closely inspect it looking for issues that need fixing or tweaking before giving approval to proceed to production. This way, you can be sure your game looks and feels just the way you imagined before we start the full-scale custom board game production.

The minimum order quantity, or the smallest number of games you can order from us, is 1000 games. This is because we use mass production processes like offset printing to make your custom board games. This process works best and is the most cost-effective when we're making at least 1000 games at a time. So, if you're planning to order from us, using mass manufacturing, you'll need to order at least 1000 games.

When we make a lot of copies of your board game, you can customise a lot of parts of it to make it exactly to your liking. You can pick different materials, sizes, and finishes for your game pieces, cards, and game board. In short, you can customise everything - from the tokens you use in the game to the dice, and even the box it comes in. Our goal in manufacturing your board game is to help make your unique ideas real in every part of your game. Just remember, if you can dream it, we can help you make it! Learn more about customisation on our platform.

Our project managers are always ready to help with the manufacturing of your custom game from start to finish. They can advise on how to prepare your production files and get your artwork ready, so it looks awesome when it's printed. Whether you're making a custom board game or card game, we're here to help make your game just like you imagined it.

Once production is complete, we prepare your shipment for dispatch. While occasionally a small number of games may be airfreighted or trucked to their final destination, it's almost always the case that your games will travel by sea.

You might hear terms like FOB or EXW when we talk about the logistics of sending your games where they need to go. FOB, which is short for "Free on board" or "Freight on board", means that the cost of getting your goods onto the boat is included in the quote we gave you for your project. EXW, or "Ex Works", means you handle it all, including picking the game up from the factory.

Remember, our team is here to help you pick the best shipping option for your game. Don't hesitate to ask questions! We want to make sure your game arrives safely and on time.

We accept artwork in PDF format. We recommend using software like Adobe InDesign or Affinity Publisher to compile your files.

For some of the more complex components like boxes, we supply layout templates in PDF, but putting the files together is the client's responsibility. We strongly recommend using an experienced graphic designer to undertake this work as the requirements for files are highly technical.

Don't forget to ask us if you have any questions about how to save your artwork or what file formats are. We're here to help make creating your game as easy as possible.

Have any questions that aren’t covered above? You may find the answer over in our Help Center

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