Castro Valley, California
Games made for
someone,
not everyone.
A board game about your best friend. A deck of photos of your mum. Fifty questions with both your names on every card. Answer a few questions, and a human artist draws the rest.
A first name, a nickname, two names. Nothing else needed yet.
- $29–$150
- Three games, three budgets
- 2–7 days
- In the studio
- 0%
- AI in the artwork
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Lights, Camera
drawn by hand
your edition
Type a name and watch. We’ll wait.
How this works
Build the game in minutes. Watch it get made for a week.
The part you do takes about ten minutes. The part we do takes days — and you can see exactly where it’s up to, the whole time, from your own dashboard.
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Pick your game
Three formats, three budgets. The picker tells you which suits the occasion you've actually got.
1 minute
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Answer the questions
Short and specific. Their name, the occasion, a handful of true things about them, and your photos.
5–10 minutes
- 03
Check it over
Everything you sent, laid out on one screen, before a single thing gets printed. Change anything you like.
2 minutes
- 04
Watch it get made
Your dashboard moves through every stage — illustration, print, assembly, quality check, shipped.
You do nothing
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YOU: The Board Game
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Order createdNow
We've got it. Your studio slot is booked.
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Customization
Your answers and photos are in. Check them over before we start.
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Making your game
Illustrating, printing, cutting, assembling. The long bit.
- 4
Shipping
Boxed, checked and on its way with a tracking number.
Every answer you gave stays on this screen. If something’s wrong, you’ll spot it before we print it — not after it lands on the doorstep.
Three games
Which one is it going to be?
They’re deliberately different from each other — in price, in how long they take, and in what they ask of you.
The birthday centrepieceYOU: The Board Game
The premium centrepiece. A full custom-illustrated board game built around one person — the diva — for everyone who loves them.
- Players
- 2–6 players
- Turnaround
- About 7 days
The fast, generous oneThe Memory Game
Photo pairs of your favourite people. Every match you find unlocks a message from someone who loves them.
- Players
- 2–8 players
- Turnaround
- 2–3 days
The one for two peopleSPARK
50 conversation cards in a keepsake tin, both your names on every one. Two names and two photos is all we need.
- Players
- 2 players
- Turnaround
- However long you want
Drawn by a person
You pick the artist.
They pick up a pen.
Rolly, Jipaw and Erwin each draw completely differently. You choose whose hand you want on your game — or let us match you to whoever suits your photos best.
No part of the artwork is AI-generated. Not the portrait, not the board, not the box. That isn’t a production detail we’re keeping quiet about — it’s the point.
Since you’re here
We are, after all,
a yellow dice company.
So there’s a die. Pick it up, throw it against the sides, see where it lands. Each face tells you something true about how we work.
While you’re poking around — there’s a pair of red Scrambler glasses in the top corner of every page. They do the same thing here that they do inside YOU: The Board Game.
Pick it up. Throw it.
Every face says something true about how we work. There are six of them.
Yellow Dice Originals
We make one game that isn’t about you at all.
GLITCH is our retail title — a chaotic party card game, no personalization, funded at 238% on Kickstarter. Different animal entirely.
Someone you know is about to be very surprised.
Ten minutes of questions from you. About a week of work from us. Then a box arrives with their face on it.