I Turned a Roguelite into a Board Game 

Holy heck, board game dev logs are criminally underrated and we need more documentation on the creation of them. Thank you!

"Things on the market weren't enough for me, so i decided to make my own game" This sounds like the backstory of a forever DM in DND

I thought this happened like, recently, not 2/3 years ago.

Holy crap that was the most impulse-ass buy I've made in my life. This is awesome stuff dude! The video was super inspiring, and then the moment you said you didn't have much left in stock, I made a mad dash to the checkout haha. I'm moving soon, and I can't wait for this to be the first game I play with my new roommates! Best of luck with your future projects!

I cannot explain just how much I love the art for the game. It’s wonderful!

This is super inspiring because I’ve always wanted to publish a board game and I’ve worked on many throughout the years but I always stopped development. Now I’ve been slowly crafting one, making it a part of my routine everyday, and I’m loving the process more than ever. Thanks for sharing!

I would really love to buy a PDF and print myself. I live outside of the US and the shipping is really expensive :(

You should officially bring it to tabletop simulator, i feel like that would be a big advert for the game

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Ah!! This game looks just so beautifully elegant! That art style is absolutely delightful and the mechanics look so simple. Thank you for sharing how you started with notecards and frustrated family members. That kind of failure is what keeps holding me back from my own projects, so thank you for sharing this inspiring journey.

Great video as always Goodgis! I still think back to those days in college, working like crazy to finish everything for The Keeyp and for school. Thanks to everyone who made the Keeyp possible. It was fun while it lasted! 😁 On to the next thing!

I HAVE THIS!!!!!

Man, you definitely need to reprint the game, and put it up again! This time with international shipping, so I can get one. 😃

and my dream come true, a roguelike board game, i so excited to see this

I came here just to say that the thumbnail for this vid is so damn C R I S P Y

You know, three years ago I came up with an idea for a game called Deeper Dungeons. It was a co-op card game, where you open doors to discover rooms, and each room has a chance to contain nothing, an enemy, or a treasure (draw from the item deck) The goal of the game was to get OUT of the dungeons by finding the set of stairs that were placed somewhere it the deck. I made it completely by hand, and still think about remaking it and publishing today. Inspiration: GOT.

Tbh, if you charged more, I’m sure it would’ve been a success! Even at $35-40, it would do amazing

Why does RU-vid recommend this to me know when it's impossible to get except print and play? Man, it looks pretty great. Nice work on rolling up your sleeves and just saying, "Guess I'll have to do it myself!"

Super sad I missed it, hopefully, you'll do another run someday!!

I'm actually planning to create a board game from the indie game I'm making at some point.

0:43 ololo intensifies

I am working on a micro TTRPG that I am hoping to have finished by the end of the year. It is shocking how quickly and slowly a game comes together. It is an exciting thing to work on.

I made my own cardgame a few years ago from a idea workshop I attended. During our final presentation, one of the judges was from a government company that will give seed fundings to startups, and he was excited about my game. Fast forward to almost 7 years now, I never really did pursuit the cardgame. But, within that 7 years of gap, I did get my friends to playtest my mockup and prototype. I think I just might get back on it. I'm also working on converting an existing fighting game into a tabletop style cardgame fighting. It will be shortlived but I am hoping to make it into trial for the real game devs of the existing fighting game to play it. Thanks for making this video, and wish me luck!

As someone currently making a Board Game/Card Game for fun this is has been a good inspiration. Thank you.

Aaaaawh, I can't believe I didn't get this video recommended to me while the Kickstarter was live! It looks great, loved seeing the development.

You always give me inspiration to keep on making games. THANK YOU!

I love the idea that I started working on my boardgame like 1-2 weeks ago, from ideas on paper to prototypes, play testing it over and over. This video got recommended to me and I'm so happy and excited to see others go through the same problems as me with establishing the rules for the game and how stuff interacts with each other!! Sometimes youtube algorithm can be a blessing in the sky

I started to make my own board game months ago , I thought that I wouldn’t finish it but I didn’t just finish my board game but I updated it too with like more than 250 cards made with the best quality drawings I could do and I’m so proud of me making it. And yes I had two friends that played with me and none of them were forsed.

I NEED TO GET THIS! Good luck finding a publisher. This looks awesome

I'm making a boardgame myself right now, so this makes me feel like I can actually finish it. (It's a foursquare game by the way)

there was a board game that I can't recall its name. You build the entire map in stage 1 then when stage 2 triggers depending on some parameters of how stage 2 was reached the whole monster and mechanics of stage 2 would change, sometimes the bad guy is a zombie and turns everyone into a zombie, an other time the map would collapse, etc (I didn't get to play many renditions of it to comment)

loved this! curenly finishin my prototype. Might be ready today. Glad to have found your channel and this vid.

with the whole covid situation going on have you considered turning this into a video game?

I reaaaaaally love the art of this boardgame!!

I would love to grab the game in the next wave but hopefully there will be expansions available!! Theres nothing more lovely than expansion!

This looks like a super cool game! It reminds me a lot of one of my favorite board games I’ve ever played, betrayal at the house on the hill. It shares a lot of the same core mechanics, like the two stages where it starts friendly then people turn on each other, and also the system of building the board. If you are interested in or like this game I would def recommend betrayal at the house on the hill.

Can I just say how much I appreciate (as an almost compulsive, perfectionist designer myself) seeing how meticulously you arrange all the elements with correct spacing using the align option and they all have the same stroke width? Because with all the designers/game developers on RU-vid/Kickstarter and such, it's all too rare to see this attention to detail, so I want to mention this quality - I really appreciate it! 👌 This time invested by you alone should be reason enough for a re-release for The Keeyp. Okay, designer-nerd-talk over. Great job! 😅 If you're ever interested in a German localisation - I'd be happy to support you, even if it might be a bit difficult (but not impossible) to translate all wordplays as such.

Wow this is incredible! It's so well made, I loved the artstyle

People like you inspire me. I'm making a card game called BIO WAR and am getting close to releasing it

The description of "Fight monsters, level up, and get gear" sounds like Munchkin :P

I can proudly confirm that I've been a part of a petition to revive an amazing brand you offer us.

I wish my school experiences were like this.

This appeard on my youtube home page this morning, really impressed, wanted to join the KS but its closed, not going to lie a little gutted as the art style looks fantastic!

Thanks for sharing your story. I had a similar experience with my friends, except the game failed to fund (for now). But we haven't given up (and never will) and will see the game to fruition, no matter how many years that takes

*Another great video by the one and only Goodgis!* Too bad there's only 30 copies of the game left, because I think it has potential.

“Fine, I’ll do it myself”

I would love to get my hands on a copy of this, if there's ever a reprint!

The art for the game is amazing, I loved seeing the process for the cards, characters, box art, and other promotional things, would love to see more graphic design content in the future if possible, keep it up!

Hey Goodgis! Will you be entering the GMTK's game jam? Also new vid HYPE

Goodgis: "Pick up your meeple," Google Voice-To-Text: "Pick up your meatball,"

This is the coolest idea for a board game I've ever seen! I'm working on my first fully-finished video game with a small team right now, but I've done a lot of small stuff for game jams before!

Awesome to hear about your game and how you made it with friends! It kind of reminds me of a game I played a while ago called betrayal at house on the hill.

Would it be possible to make a print and play copy? (Like PDFs and stuff)

"how my school sold my board game" i fixed for you.

That's an awesome story! Glad to hear you accomplished that dream! The game looks great and the concept is somewhat similar to my first board game prototype. I shelved mine though but after a few other prototypes I finally am moving towards publishing one of my games. Listening to your video and from my experience I'd say doing it with someone and not alone makes a huge difference in whether the project can actually see the sight of day. I hope the game goes back on sale and you get to make some $$ of of it still.

Thank you for sharing your process and experience with making a board game. I was a bit inspired to continue creating a game I'm working on.

Glad I got to see this video. I am in the play testing phase of my first prototype. I got in contact with local game devs in my area to try and playtest and get feedback on my game so hopefully this is the start to a new chapter

This is the ''Don't murder your friendships' version of Betrayal at house on the hill. I love it.

Great job on the game! My tabletop crew gave it a test drive last night and everyone loved it!

I think you guys could benefit from the custom mechanical keyboard marketing model of doing Group Buys, where you basically sell X copies until you reach a MOQ, and *then* you actually produce the number of bought copies and ship them wherever; and after that, you make a Round 2, ad infinitum Basically, infinite kickstarters, but you also don't go through the hassle of setting up one, with a hype video and tiers

I just thinking about this kind of game, but not sure if I need to invent this, but luckily, I found this. Thank you

This is a pretty inspiring. Creating a TTRPG and I loved seeing what your process was.

Hope there’s another printing! I’d love to get my hands on a copy. This video really inspires me, since I’m hoping to make my own game!

please do this again, this really made me want my own copy!!!

basically what I wanna do right now, well...maybe whet I'm doing, because I already made some mechanic and rules. I really love board game and making one is really a dream for me. I've made a "board game" before when I was a child, it just a paper where I draw a map/a circuit where me and my friend race on it. that time, I don't even know the term board game, the idea just come to my head. super glad I found this video, really awesome and motivated. thanks for making this, and I would definitely get myself a copy of the Keeyp, looks super interesting!

please start making more copys of it soon it looks cool

This is really cool! In 2017 as an assignment in college we had to design and create a board game from scratch in 7 weeks. This video made me miss that project, it was really cool! Basically a MOBA - Capture the flag kinda thing. Might have to look into it again🤔

The initial concept reminds me a bit of "Descent: Journeys in the Dark". A great game, worth a look at if you haven't heard of it. I really like what you made in the end! And a very inspiring story.

I once made a simple multiplayer board game for my niece. Printed on two sheets of A4 photographic paper. I didn't know about vector graphic, so everything was horribly pixelated (I used Paint). The game was a blast. So satisfying for me, too :)

Watching the process of something always gets me inspired Especially board and card games Great vid

Sounds like a fantasy Betryal at the House on the Hill. Looks good. I like the art

I'm still in high school and I have tried making my own boardgame and videogame and I am now more inspired than ever because of these dev logs. Thank you haha

Wow! I love the artwork!!! Good job

if this had a solo mode i'd be all over it. "roguelite to board game" is something i frickin' love. there's a game called 'quest for the lost pixel' that might be my favorite board game of all time and it nailed the roguelite video game feel.

Man, that's awesome! I personally did a board game to play with friends, but never thought of releasing it, mostly because it was hand drown

looks really cool. i like seeing a game dev channel making a video designing a non video game. i love making ttrpgs & there's just so much space for games you can play without a computer

This seriously reminds me of a game called "betrayal at house on the hill" you explore a giant house getting items and loot, until the haunt is revealed. Once one player is revealed as the haunt, everyone has to work together(or in their own) to escape the house or kill the haunt. Their is tons of different haunts what can happen with a unique gameplay each time.

An time ago i wanted to do an board game, the idea was the same that you had, i never could make my game, but you made, exactly what i wanted, thanks.

Amazing job and game guys! You are living the dream.

This was very insightful! Loved it!

Have you ever considered making a virtual edition? It looks like a lot of fun, I just struggle finding people to play with.

As someone who has been going through the undertaking of making my own roguelike board game, this video was really cool for me, since it showed me that the dream I have right now IS possible! This was a really cool video, keep up the great work, and I hope that The Keeyp makes it big someday!

Kickstart for a complete edition!!

First, I think that learning game design through board games is a great way to start, so as to get familiar with the fundamentals (e.g.: mechanics, rules, story if need be). It’s how I started learning. Second, although I really want to buy your game (I tried to), I can’t because shipping to Canada is pretty pricey (and that’s without the conversion to Canadian dollars) =_= .... Just know that if I could, I would because I love board/card games!Hopefully, you’ll be able to sell more one day and I can pick up a copy :D

I was not familiar with your game but after this epic ride of a story I just need to play it!

I actually had almost the same idea for a game as you do. The dungeon building mechanics was very similar and everything, but it was actually more leaned to a more complicated rpg board game. As I never had the time to make this game come true and because you made a very similar game actually real, I totally want to buy a copy from you.

No way?! I designed a game quite similar to this for a game design class.

My copy arrived today!! im so excited yo play it!

I also finished making a board game on paper and made my own cards using paper, but i have no idea how to market it or where to make the packaging

Once i tried to make a print and play, but i didn't got the support of friends, i can make it to a class project aswell, now with the corect support and interest of friends i thinki we are making some progress in board games experience. I really apreciate you sharing your story, as you say the time we share while creating is so wholesome.

Love the vector design of the cards

Thank you. I have been wanting to make a board game but I never had the confidence to make it and this gave me it. Again, thank you. ❤️

This is amazing. personally this is inspiring me to make a tower defense board game. Great job

Funny thing, I created similar game in my notebook when I was around 13 yrs old. Fast forward 25 yrs, recently I recreated very similar game ON THE FLY, while playing it with my son :) The mechanics worked surprisingly well.

This was such an amazing video! As a fellow Ohioan who's currently working on their first game (which is also a dungeon crawler), this was super inspiring and helpful! Keep up the great work! I'll definitely be picking up a copy of your game

I think i had the same reason why i started making my boardgame: i couldn't find anything similar to what i wanted to play. I'm making a game about pirates, but concentrated more on exploration (with the mechanic of all players making the map together, like your game or Carcassonne) and battles (with cards like in BANG!) and of course the one with more treasures wins. Simple, right to the core and fun. That's my idea of the boardgame i have in mind. I have 1 prototype and i play it with my friends sometimes. It needs more testing though to understand if it flows without breaking too much. I'm at version 4 i think. Now i have an intrusive thought that a friend told me about: you can't make boardgames without a mathematician, which it sounds to me like bonkers. I think you can make games with some basic knowledge on probability especially with a game with cards in it. But i think it's up to the maker to understand if it's the right amount of cards that players find and sift through them. I don't know. How did you manage that aspect? Thank you so much for the tips!

Man I want to see a vid of a full campaign of it, like what polygon does with board games

I've not heard of this game but it sounds so fun. I love Haunting at House on the Hill which sounds very similar, where you work together to explore the house in the first phase and the second phase it turns into a competitive gave with either PvP or pve. I'd love to try your game out to see how it compares as in my opinion the combat system in hill house is a little clunky

I think I spent $140+ on "Quest for the Lost Pixel" (a roguelike deck-building game) just the other day, and that was at a slight discount. Sure it's highly regarded and has almost 900 cards, but in the words of Flex Tape... *That's a'lotta' DAMAGE!*

at school i used paper to legit make a copy of your game and play with friends! its fun and my classmates love it